Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Missey on December 28, 2018, 18:34
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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
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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. 👍
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Thanks - I always get confused with those & Telepathy
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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!
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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!