[666]

Easily grown outdoors as a Ridge Cucumber, this is a very interesting, quick-growing, very prolific variety producing an abundance of delightful, rounded, lemon-coloured fruits.

I am looking for what I am going to grow next year-how exciting!

[WG.]

Planted on top of a ridge or mound of earth.  Cumbria might be a bit cool for them - hopefully someone will disagree with me.  

[flatcap]

666,

                   do you mean chrystal apple cucumbers ,thats what description sounds like to me .were growing them inside the greenhouse
were getting loads ,there very easy to grow and they dont rift back up on us like norm cucumbers

[666]

666,

                   do you mean chrystal apple cucumbers ,thats what description sounds like to me .were growing them inside the greenhouse
were getting loads ,there very easy to grow and they dont rift back up on us like norm cucumbers

'Crystal Lemon' HEIRLOOM VARIETY Cucurbitaceae Cucumber (Ridge type)

What does 'rift back up' mean.  Still quite new to this, bought a cucumber plant in may, stuck it into a pot, put it into the greenhouse and left it.  I have had more fruit than I know what to do with-but as you can see this is more good luck than management!

[WG.]

What does 'rift back up' mean.

Burp

[666]

LOL-oh I though it was some technical gardening term.  I'll leave now!

 :oops:

[flatcap]

LOL-oh I though it was some technical gardening term. I'll leave now

             lol 666, i was been polite shud of just put belch or burp.

were growing apple and lemon cucumbers but were still newbies at it could the ridge bit be the nobbly bits on them

[muntjac]

ya daft wassucks ridge cucs are just grown outdoors ones ,, wot are you loike
sow ya seed in the greenhouse .burpless tasty green are best i found  dig a trench 18inch wide fill with manure n back fil till u have a mound plant ya cucs when they have 4 leaves n wait for the fruit .they have male n female flowers so u dont ned to worry about pollinitan em ,dont let em grow more than 8 inch tho

[WG.]

You'd still plant them on a mound wouldn't you?  Same as courgettes?

[muntjac]

yups

[flatcap]

oh bugga ,got mine growing in the greenhouse
     
           there bout 4ft tall and that wide theve starting engulfing tomoto plants :oops:

[DD.]

You'd still plant them on a mound wouldn't you?  Same as courgettes?

No.

Straight in the soil. Wire mesh for them to grow up.

As for courgettes, I actually do the opposite & grow them in a hollow, well not a hollow but into level ground, then draw up the soil around the plant, so it has a circular mound around it. When you water - it doesn't run away.

"Werks for me".

When all esle fails - read the planting instructions on the packet!

[WG.]

Ah well, I can't grow them outdoors anyway - too cold.

[DD.]

ya daft wassucks ridge cucs are just grown outdoors ones ,, wot are you loike

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[GrannieAnnie]

I grow my Tastee Burpless Green in the ground inside the polytunnel, no ridges though, but they are the ones that turned into melons this year, and the outdoor ones aren't doing very well, all that rain did something to them.  I've only had one cucumber with another on the way!!!