Taking Shape
There’s something cute about tiny cucumbers just starting to form. All of a sudden the first few have appeared this week and I took the opportunity to pinch out the […]
Tag Archives: cucumber
Big, small, green, red, crunch!
Or how at this time of year every phase of vegetable growing is there to be enjoyed As we enter the last few weeks of summer there are lots of […]
Moving outdoors
With the weather that bit warmer now, I took the cucumber plunge today and moved five plants out of their pots and into one of the raised beds. Notoriously temperamental, […]
Cute Cucumbers
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. […]
Sowing & planting
Broad beans, spring onions, fertiliser, weeds and rain. That was today’s agenda for the raised beds. A bit of weeding in the onion patch revealed that the overwintering sets have […]
Saving seed
For the first time, I’m trying proper seed saving. Having first checked that it isn’t a hybrid variety, which wouldn’t work, I let a Marketmore cucumber grow to the point […]
Cucumber Surprise
One of the things about cucumber plants is their ability to hide what they’re up to, with their big leaves. All looks quite innocent above, with three healthy Marketmore plants […]
