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| Cucumbers climb up sunflowers |
If you look closely at the picture, you can see some lovely pickling cucumbers using the sunflower stalks as a trellis. I planted sunflowers a few years ago, and after letting them go to seed in the fall, I now have regular volunteer sunflowers every year. It doesn't always time out with the crop rotations in my beds, but this past year, the sunflowers grew right next to my cucumbers, and they provided a wonderful tall sturdy trellis for the cukes to climb.
