Outdoor Cucumber Supports

[WendyC]

Last year I supported my outdoor cucumbers using some plastic mesh with 2" squares. I made a cylinder and used bamboo canes to hold it upright. The cucumbers climbed well, except it wasn't tall enough and some of the cucumbers grew inside the tube and I couldn't reach them.
I've done a search to look for other ideas but none of them are within my limited diy skills or would cost more than I could hope to recoup in a cucumber crop. I have some smaller squared plastic mesh this year so wondered if this might be better? Would they climb bamboo canes, I'm thinking they are too smooth. What about a wigwam with string horizontally around. How tall do people make supports and what do you use? I'm growing Marketmore.
Ideas please!

[Thelma Sanders]

What about a wigwam with string horizontally around.

That works for my cukes, I use 6ft canes for the wigwam, but they rarely make it to the top.

[GreaterMarrow]

I thought outdoor cucumbers were supposed to be allowed to sprawl along the ground...anyone tried this method? I was wondering how far they spread and how you can get them to all grow in the same direction!!

[WendyC]

You can do but I prefer to provide supports so the slugs and snails are further away from the fruits.

[Jungle Jane]

I use my daughters old swing,with hessian net thrown over,so things can carry on climbing over the top,hides the metal-it's pink. Grew cucumber & melons up it,underneath planted rocket,peppers,marigolds,geraniums. If things sprawl along the ground,it all takes up too much space,as well as the problem with slugs & snails,they couldn't make it across the net

Also I was growing carmen an indoor variety. Outdoor cucumbers don't grow as tall do they?

[donksey]

I use my upright Aldi propagator, which by then has finished propagating plants.
Put a couple of cucumbers on the top two shelves and train them around and through the mesh downwards. As the cucumbers form I guide them through the mesh, they hang down and develop perfectly.
This year I will try positioning the plants on the lower shelf and guide the stems upwards.