Re: [CH] Plant layouts

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Cucumbers ARE one of the most invasive vegetable plants. If you have the 
room I would make a whole garden area dedicated to cucumbers, not only for 
their large growing area needs, they also have different watering needs. I 
find that soaking the soil with A LOT of water where you grow cucumbers will 
produce the sweetest, juiciest cucumbers you've ever tasted. Its a difficult 
task to soak the cucumber plant, if its right next to plants that would 
probably wilt with that much water. Of course, if you enjoy the more ~sour~ 
sharp taste of store bought cucumbers, then they would be fine with your 
habs. Just make sure they are planted far enough away.

jeremy
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>
>   I had some minor problems with the cucumbers I put in for my wife last 
>year.  I hadn't
>grown them previously, and didn't realize quite how invasive they would be. 
>  It was probably
>a few times per week that I had to wrestle one or more of their little 
>feelers from around
>the stems or leaves of my nearby chile plants.  We did put up a trellis for 
>them to climb,
>which they did, but also, of course, wanted to spread out in all 
>directions.
>

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