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Old June 5, 2020   #16
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Thanks for sharing! Love your PVC construction and use of small spaces.
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Very nice tidy garden! Do you put extra strings down from the pvc frame for your cucumbers?
Nope, just the green stretchy garden tape around the main stems. Same with the tomatoes.
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Thanks for sharing! Love your PVC construction and use of small spaces.
Thanks. When you can't go out, go up. I used to use those wire cages and when two of them bent to the ground, I used some spare PVC to prop them up. The PVC cages just seemed to develop from there.
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Old June 6, 2020   #19
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I bought a stick of 3/4" pvc pipe and a couple of fittings yesterday in a small, local hardware store. The cost was $14.00. I probably could have bought it at Home Depot for a lot less. I only wanted to reroute my condensate drain from the air conditioner. I thought to myself, I'm glad I'm not building tomato cages.
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Very nice tidy garden! Do you put extra strings down from the pvc frame for your cucumbers?
No, I prune them to a single stem and then just tie that to the pvc with the stretchy green garden tape (which I save and reuse every year).
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Old June 19, 2020   #21
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Here's an update as of 6/19/2020

Couldn't get good overall pictures as I've posted before, so I did individual plants instead.

Cages have reached their zenith at 6 feet tall.

For some reason the Cherokee Purple plants don't seem to be growing as tall as the rest.

The Lemon Boy and Yellow Pear were planted a month after the others.
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