Back in April my polytunnel blew away, taking my table and seedlings with it. I managed to salvage all but a few tomato plants and although some of the name sticks fell I was pretty confident of what was what. The one thing that I was not confused over was my cucumber plants.
I have now planted two cucumber plants and two water melon plants in the polytunnel and they are growing well but I am starting to question whether or not they are actually what I think they are.
They all have very similar leaves (which are very similar to courgette leaves) and at the base they have all started to sprout little buds and start to put out little tendrils. On the largest of the plants (which I am sure is one of the cucumbers) the little buds have turned into little yellow balls.
I am now starting to worry that they are in fact courgettes! I did have 8 courgette seedlings on the go at the same time. I can't remember what type they were but I know that they are the ones that look like normal green courgettes but are yellow.
I have never grown melons or cucumber before so don't really know what they should look like. I have grown courgettes before but to be honest have never paid that much attention to them - with courgettes you just sort of plant them and they grow in abundance don't they.
I was going to take some photos but we are off on our holidays tomorrow and I have packed the camera.
Can anyone point me in the direction of some good photos of melon, cucumber and courgette plants at various stages of growth so I can try to work out what these are.
I suppose it will be a lovely surprise as to what they end up being - unless it is courgettes which will then fill my polytunnel with their long tendrils!