400 cukes per hill! How many plants do you have in a Hill? We don’t do very well with cukes, watermelons, or canteloupe stuff here. It’s hared to get the vines to live long enough for the fruit to be ready.
Cukes do the best.
Well, it's up and all veggie plants in grow bags are in the net room, plus the Giant Zinnia plants as they are still small enough a size a critter could eat them. Didn't put the Hummingbird plant and Lantana in there as they are really big now and safe to be on their own outside the net. The Sesame flowers are really tall and also safe on their own outside the net.
When I say it's up, it didn't happen fast. The covered dirt garden slants toward the front and that makes it uneven for me to balance. Wayne was afraid I would lose my balance and hit the ground. I didn't fall, but it was iffy a number of times dealing with the slanted ground and holding up the aluminum frame and working on the net at the same time. Had to move plants out of the way for a while, lots of bending and uneven ground. I had to lift it on and off the holder several times and that was the worst as it is rather heavy to deal with on uneven ground. WERE YOU THERE TO HELP? NO. :o)
Add in it would start raining and I had to go inside, rain would stop, I'd go back out in the 100% humidity and sweat some more working on the blasted net room. It just won't totally quit raining/sprinkling/light rain. So, I stayed in with rain but went back out in the sprinkling/light rain.
I was determined to get that thing up and those plants inside that net room. I didn't put water in the ring of the base of it because I had had it by the time I got it totally up. It still needs adjusting, as in some places the net is bunched together more than other places and I'll deal with that when it isn't raining. I don't think a squirrel can figure out how to lift the ring around the bottom and get in as the ring has some natural weight holding it down.
I unzipped the door to work inside the net to help get it on and that's where I can spread the net to get it even all around. I'm not through arranging the plants but at least they are in there.
I guess you'd like to visit now and sit in the net room and have a cup of coffee among the plants. The little red hen says, “NO, you didn't suffer putting it up.” :o) Actually, you can sit in there if you want. :o)
The squirrel came back and I let Prissy out and he took off. I saw he is eating a leaf on the second “T” squash that is about 10 inches tall. That is in a separate plastic container and was on the deck, so I moved it off the deck into the net house. Tough cookie, squirrel, you aren’t getting that one, either, you POS!