For a little while longer I’m keeping the cucumber plants indoors. There’s still a slight risk of overnight frosts, so they’re near one of the windows in pots for now.

I’m growing three varieties:

1. Marketmore, which has performed well in previous years and makes weighty 8 inch fruits
2. Cornichon de Paris, a first time grow for me, which promises lots of small gerkhins, ideal for pickling
   and
3. Grandal, again new to me and sized somewhere between the two others, being good picked small at 3 inches or left to grow a bit larger.

The Grandal plants are racing ahead and already have yellow flowers. Look closely behind the flowers and you can see the tiny cucumbers forming:

It’s a trailing variety and the stems are noticeably flexible, so when planting them outside I’ll trail them up a trellis to keep the fruit off the ground where slugs would have a feast.

I’m very much looking forward to lots of cucumbers come harvest season. They’re one of those vegetables that combines good taste with great health benefits, so will always be a wortwhile grow.