Yeah as long as they have something close to grab onto they will do it all on their own and keep on climbing. Only time there is a problem is if there is nothing close to grab. Every now and then you may see a tendril reaching out "looking for something to grab". Just encourage the vine back toward a wire.

Dave

What is CRM? Sometimes I'll use light weight rope to tie the vine up.

Thanks everyone. Oops, I meant CRW....conrete remesh wire.

*CONCRETE

Lol, wish they had an edit option for these comments, for just that reason.. spelling mistakes! :) You don't really need to "do" anything, but hey if you're excited and you just want to be hands-on, there's nothing wrong with going out there and gently maneuvering the stems closer to your trellis if they happen to be happily vining the other direction. However, a word of caution... cucumber vines aren't like squash fines, etc. They're not hardy and meaty... they're like crisp, hollow straws and won't hesitate to Snap if you bend them the wrong way... and there's really no recovering. That's not to say that cukes aren't resilient growers, but if you happen to snap off most of the plant at the base, you're out of luck so be careful. :)

Heh Miss, you can edit your posts- you just click the edit button in the upper right hand corner of your post :)

But for the cukes... If the CRW has holes too big or the spacing of your cuke isn't right for it to want to grab onto the wire, you can always use a bit of twine in the inbetween areas to help it out a bit. The cukes want to climb all on their own.