{"id":13237,"date":"2012-06-09T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=13237"},"modified":"2012-06-18T19:59:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T02:59:42","slug":"cucumbers-corralled-and-tomatoes-tied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/06\/09\/cucumbers-corralled-and-tomatoes-tied\/","title":{"rendered":"Cucumbers Corralled and Tomatoes Tied"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helped my friends, Sylvia and Rodrigo, tidy up some of the more aggressively growing vegetable plants in their garden. We started by added a plastic mesh to a portion of fence to coax a fast-spreading cucumber to grow upwards instead of outwards, some more mesh to surround another cucumber plant, and some clothes-line rope to string up some ever-expanding tomato plants.<\/p>\n

Lilo and Stitch were the job foremen barking out orders and waiting for the errant tomato to drop.<\/p>\n

The whole operation turned out really well and the garden looks less overrun and a lot more kempt and organized.<\/p>\n

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Helped my friends, Sylvia and Rodrigo, tidy up some of the more aggressively growing vegetable plants in their garden. We started by added a plastic mesh to a portion of fence to coax a fast-spreading cucumber to grow upwards instead of outwards, some more mesh to surround another cucumber plant, and some clothes-line rope to … <\/p>\n

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