Cucumber Trellis

We had built 4 greenhouses this spring.  Two where built from PVC pipe.  They both where destroyed by the windy spring...sigh.   But that meant we had mangled pipe left lying in a heap.  Being a scavenger the heap looked like a trellis to me. We buried the poles a foot in the dirt.  (Post hole digging really works the shoulder muscles...or I'm a wimp.) One of the trellises blew down in the wind.  (No, we don't live in Oklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plain---it's Iowa.) Up went the trellis again today...this time staked out.  Two rows of chicken wire where zip tied to the trellis and wallah it was done.

The middle was wide open and I just couldn't let the space go to waste, so I planted lettuce.  Yes, I'll have to crawl on the hands and knees to weed and harvest, but I just could let it go to waste. (I also have a two year old niece that may enjoy it as well.)  The trellis will be used for cucumbers and beans.  I transplanted the baby cucumbers this evening as the final triumph of the trellis trauma.

As a final joy of the day was the first harvest of the garden.  Yeah, finally something in return for all the work!  Radishes, purple plum radishes, round, plump and ready to eat.