Tuesday, June 24, 2014

My New Project

The impetus for this actually goes back to when I taught English in China in 1981.  While touring the countryside I saw large ponds by farm houses.  They were sources for the raising of fish and the care of ducks, and many had these huge bamboo lattices covering a major portion.  Growing on the lattices were cucumbers!  The farmers used a boat to row out under them to reach up of harvest the fruit.  They also provided shade for the ducks.

So back to this week here.  On the relative cheap, I bought these two trellises and put them in the planter boxes just to see if I could get the cucumbers to grow on them.  Once that worked I have created a set of beams to create a frame for the vines to grow up and form a canopy on.






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