[pistonbroke]

Hi folks
 I would like to try some outdoor cucumbers but I am unsure if i should let them just ramble over the plot or build a frame to let them grow up.
If the latter, what kind of frame should I construct?

[prakash_mib]

cues dont climb on their own. you have to train them through the frame you are building. but they are good ramblers on the ground and give a good cover to block the weeds. Last year i grew them crawling on the plot.
but I am sorry to say I dont have any design for cues frame.

[compostqueen]

mine goes up an old tatty bit of trellis on my lotty shed

[viettaclark]

Mine have got a piece of that green wire fencing mesh (nailed between 2 bits of 2"x1") propped behind the pots and wires along the fence.

[stompy]

I've grown them for about 5 years now and always grown them up a cane in the greenhouse for a better crop.
I gave my dad a spair couple of plants last year that he put out on his plot to ramble.

He got twice as many cue's as me and they were far better quality.
I know that they are outdoor cue's but it does say you can grow them in an un heatd greenhouse.
I know which way im growing them this year, outdoors and rambling 

[compostqueen]

Doing outdoor ridge varieties makes more room for tender stuff in the greenhouse. They get big so need plenty of room which you can give them outside.  I really like Burpless Tasty Green but doing two different ones this year. Hope they're as good.

[stompy]

Well im growing marketmore ridge outside, and camilla in the greenhouse.

[mumofstig]

I'm trying Crystal Lemon cues this year.......anybody else tried them?

[viettaclark]

I'm sure plants do better in the real soil rather than pots and compost and that's why yer dad did well.
Not natural, is it?

[stompy]

I grow in the soil in the greenhouse borders.
I only use pots for my melons.
I think it was more to do with the tempreture and the constant supply of water due to a wet summer 

[compostqueen]

I like some soil in my outdoor cues as I think it holds them up better against wind rock. Soil or John Innes mixed in with some growbag or multi purpose