Today I made it to the plot and mounted the fence material to the framework for the watermelon trellis. As I mentioned previously, the trellis is rotated 180 degrees from last year. I have the downward slope facing to the south this year.
The idea is to try to grow the watermelons and train them up the trellis (as last year) and to grow cucumbers in the shade created by the watermelons. I'd read that cucumbers won't create female flowers if the temps are consistently over 95. Considering no cucumbers came about until the end of August, that theory makes sense.
Once the trellis screen had been put up, I scrounged up some triangle-shaped tomato cages from last year to use for the cucumber trellis.
The watermelons were planted along the bottom of the watermelon trellis and the cucumbers inside the cucumber (tomato) cages. Once they were in the ground, I put collars around them in
an attempt to protect them from a second year's annihilation by some little critter or another.
I also found Cosmos volunteers (I think?) in need of transplanting and a new friend for Wifey.
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