Last year I made an A-frame for my cucumbers and zucchini, but for some reason, neither the cucumbers nor the zucchini survived. This year, in addition to heavily composting the garden, we had a ton of rain, and I think it really helped. I limited the A-frame to cucumbers, and helped them grow up the frame by gently clothes-pinning the leaves and vines to the frame. This encouraged the cucumber plants to stretch out their runner vines and take hold of the frame.
As you can see, it was a rousing success! I've even harvested several cucumbers from the vines already. Our entire garden kind of went out of control due to the rain, but few veggies have been ready to harvest, probably because of the low temperatures we've had all summer (last week we woke up to 50-degree temps!!!)
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