It was labeled “cucumber” when I bought it, but…

These were a late season addition to our garden to fill in my lettuce bed in late June. The selection at the local garden center was pretty well picked over by then but we thought we’d try our hand at cucumbers, having never grown them before. Anyway, the flat was labeled “cucumber” but I’m [...read more]

deer found my cucumbers and tomatoes

Went out to do my daily morning inventory of the garden and found that a deer had made a meal of the trailing cucumber vines and several of the ripening tomatoes. Normally, we don’t have much of a problem with deer, just a few nibbles here and there but no wide scale pillaging. But [...read more]

cucumbers - where are the females?

They were planted late but the cucumbers are now growing like wildfire. There are four plants in this bed and I fear they will be taking over the garage soon. I have to keep moving them off the walkway because we keep stepping on them. The only problem is that I have lots of [...read more]


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