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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: egbert on June 09, 2010, 07:49:59 pm

Title: It's a . . .
Post by: egbert on June 09, 2010, 07:49:59 pm

Cucumber.   ;D

I've just been out to water the plants in the coldframes and checked the cucumbers which are all about an inch long still, then noticed a nice big one hiding behind the pole - 10 cms at least.

Very excited here - now, when will my tomatoes start to appear?  ::)

Title: Re: It's a . . .
Post by: Daisy on June 11, 2010, 04:15:43 pm

I've just been out and picked 6 mini cuumbers and we had 3 last week, this is the second year I've grown them they are really easy much prefer them to toms  ;D

Title: Re: It's a . . .
Post by: Roxy on June 11, 2010, 04:18:34 pm

Gave up with tomatoes, the last two summers the weather has been so bad, they hardly ripened.  Have lots of veg growing, but up here, over 1,000ft up, things are a lot slower, and we do not plant out until ....well, now.  Been frosty a couple of nights recently.

Title: Re: It's a . . .
Post by: Fleecewife on June 12, 2010, 12:04:14 am

We're at a 1000 feet too and can only grow tomatoes, cucumbers, even sweetcorn, courgettes and climbing beans in a tunnel.  I grow cherry toms which ripen quickly but cucumbers are wonderful tasty snacks too, and always ready earlier.  Mine are still impatiently waiting on the bedroom windowsill to be planted out  ::)  But we have started eating them  :)

Title: Re: It's a . . .
Post by: northfifeduckling on June 17, 2010, 10:17:54 pm

First year with a greenhouse, i love anything  I can grow in there - toms, courgettes, sweetcorn, gherkins, aubergines, peppers - all new to me! I only ever had green toatoes for chutney before  ;D