Cucumber
Cucumis sativus
Journals (378)
Where does it grow?
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Compost and cow manure and chook manure, blood and bone etc,etc have been placed on the garden and then ordinary potting mix on top and the seeds planted into that..
This entry is about Warick's Cucumber 'Pickling Gherkin' in the Vegetable garden.
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I was able to get this plant to grow up on my garden trellis, and I think that really helped it. It would get more light during the day for a longer period of time, and the fruit could hang down nicely. I was able to harvest about 1 cucumber a week. I made sure to not let them get to large bec...This entry is about Startide Rising's Cucumber - Japanese Long in the Wannabe Square Foot garden.
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Flowering: Flowering & climbing
Wow, it’s first-flower-fest in the garden right now for the summer plants, and especially in the squash bed! I found this female flower hiding behind the metal trellis the cucumber is climbing up, but didn’t see any male flowers so I don’t think it will set fruit. It’s a b...
This entry is about Glittertrash's Lebanese Cucumber in the Nunnery Vegetable garden.
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Dying: two cucumbers
Well, this plant probably would have produced more with better care, but I gave up looking for female flowers too soon. I’ll try this again sometime in a bigger container because it was a huge plant and the few cucumbers I got were really tasty.This entry is about Ajarnlin's cucumber in the Patio garden.
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Dying: time to come out
Tore ’em out yesterday, they had a good run. It is largely on the basis of the cucumber yield that i feel like i actually was a gardener this year.This entry is about Idafu's Cucumber 'Lemon' in the Firepit ring garden.
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Harvesting: Woo cukes!
Despite fights with the Sweet 100, it produced a couple of cukes. Next year, different site.This entry is about Karen In Wichita's Straight 8 Cukes in the Square Foot garden.
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This was stirring through the soil yesterday morning, and has fully sprouted today.
This entry is about Glittertrash's Cucumber 'Lemon' in the Nunnery Vegetable garden.
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This entry is about Kerstin's Double Yield Cucumber in the Kitchen garden.
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Showing True Leaves: Cucumber Mid East Prolific
So far about half of the seeds have sprouted – now to true leaf stage. Need to move from the greenhouse into the garden bed. Will probably plant these under the fruit salad tree to grow up through the branches like last year – worked well then.This entry is about Watkinssj's Cucumber Mid East Prolific in the Vegetable garden.
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Showing True Leaves: Cucumber Giant Russian: True leaves
So far about half of the seeds have sprouted – now to true leaf stage. Need to move from the greenhouse into the garden bed. Will probably plant these against the vege garden fence to maximise space.This entry is about Watkinssj's Cucumber Giant Russian in the Vegetable garden.
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