My cucumbers have already been producing like crazy, this from a smaller trellis section. The ones on the bigger trellis are ones I started from seed myself so coming later. But I just mulched the cucumber row with fresh staw as I saw some weeds starting. Pulled up the weeds and mulched. As I was working I could see there are soooooo many baby cukes coming along that I will be swimming in them when those are big enough to pick.