I have my first garden this year. I built three 4x6 raised beds that are bout 14" high. I am a horrible procrastinator -- really! Between that, needing help from my disappearing teenagers, and the incredible amount of rain (for us) with lightening and hail, I am way behind on installing my trellises. I went with the "sturdy" stakes and also found some 5x8 netting. So, in one of my beds, I planted one pumpkin plant and then watermelon and cucumber seeds. I think I can get these to go up the netting still. BUT, at the other end, I planted two yellow squash plants and yellow and zucchini seeds. THESE are huge! The leaves are now bigger than the holes in the netting! Will these still grow up the netting? I thought about loosely wrapping string or twine around the plants and then tying that to the netting. I also could cut my excess netting (which is placed between two rows of plants) and then putting one end of the netting at the end of the bed then angling it over the plants and attaching that to the netting -- this would kind of put a wall and a roof over the plants if that makes sense.
Do you think this would work? Worth a try? HELP! Next year I a SO doing things differently! But I spent so much on the raised beds and dirt this year.....
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