[PaulF]

That method seems like a lot of work no mattter the crop. I must be pretty lazy in my old age. But then I do tie tomatoes to a central stake until they get big enough to be supported by the concrete reinforced wire cages. Then I just let them grow.

My wife does our cucumbers and plants them in a large raised bed made from a cattle watering tub six feet across. I put a stock fence around about a third of the tub and another across from it and the cucumbers climb the fence. No tying needed. Cukes are harvested from the fence line.