How to Make a Cucumber Trellis for a Self Watering Container

It’s been a few weeks since I planted my cucumber plant.

It was starting to grow outside of the container, which is a good thing (at least it ain’t dying). So I built a cucumber trellis for it using mostly recycled materials.

Tools and materials:

• Old poles put out by someone for garbage. You can use anything that is sturdy enough and stands upright such as tree branches, old crutches or broom sticks.
• Strong tape to tape the poles to the container.
• String to tie around the poles and make the trellis.
• Scissors

Steps to build:

• Cut the poles to your desired length. I cut mine at about 4 feet each. Since I planted slicing cucumbers, this length should suffice. If not, I’ll have to add extensions.
• Tape the poles to the container individually, then wrap tape around all of them. I taped mine about 4 inches from the top of the container.
• Tie the string about 6 inches from the top of the container to leave room to water through the pipe.
• Wrap the string around each pole with about 3-4 inches between each level of string until the top of the poles are reached.
• Place the cucumber plant inside of your newly build trellis.