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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Missey on December 28, 2018, 18:34

Title: Marketmore Cucumber
Post by: Missey on December 28, 2018, 18:34

Hi just a quickie - going through my seed box and found some Marketmore Cucumber seed - I can't remember if this variety needs the flowers pinching out to prevent the cucumbers becoming bitter.

Thanks
Missey

Title: Re: Marketmore Cucumber
Post by: oldgrunge on December 28, 2018, 19:34

No, Marketmore is a ridge cucumber. Leave all the flowers on, if you pinch the flowers out you won't get any cucumbers! Pinching the male flowers out is for greenhouse cucumbers. 👍

Title: Re: Marketmore Cucumber
Post by: Missey on December 28, 2018, 20:30

Thanks - I always get confused with those & Telepathy

Title: Re: Marketmore Cucumber
Post by: missmoneypenny on December 29, 2018, 09:18

I grow only marketmore, outside. I don’t pinch out but make sure to give plenty of space and canes to climb up. Unsolicited advice, but I love marketmore after trying lots of other varieties!

Title: Re: Marketmore Cucumber
Post by: juvenal on December 31, 2018, 13:36

Marketmore is a winner! Productive. Great taste. No maintenance. No pinching.
Up canes, netting or trellises. Or left to itself to creep along the plot. I wouldn't grow any other!