[mdueal]

We grew our cucumbers vertically last year to try stop the chickes from eating al of them. The only thing we learnt was that chickens (our cannot fly) can jump far higher than you would have expected!

[tomato-joy]

I grew butternuts last year vertically. I put 4 stakes in the ground in a square that then put 2 levels of horizontal stakes around this frame. Planted a butternut at each corner of the frame and just kept training them round it - worked like a dream!

How tall were your stakes? How high can I expect them to grow vertically?

My stakes were about 5 feet high, and once I'd trailed the squashes around the first level and then up and round the second level I pinched out the growing tips and trained the side shoots accross the middle.

Purely by chance, a cluster of poppies appeared in the middle of the frame which looked lovely!