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cucumbers
« on: July 26, 2012, 21:04 »
My cucumber is now heading for the open window in the green house, do i stop the plant like you stop tom's?
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Re: cucumbers
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2012, 21:42 »
Unless you want it trailing down the outside of your greenhouse -- yes  :ohmy:
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Re: cucumbers
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2012, 07:58 »
I have 2 in my greenhouse and in this last week it has become a bit like the day of the triffids.

They have spread right out and I have to stop them now as I will shortly need a machete to hack my way through to the back of the greenhouse  :D
I do have 5 very nice cucumbers growing though that will be ready early next week me thinks. With lots more just starting to grow.
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Re: cucumbers
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2012, 09:23 »
I did have 2 plants but decided to cut my first cucumber and mist and cut the plant, now down to only 1.

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Re: cucumbers
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2012, 15:55 »
I did have 2 plants but decided to cut my first cucumber and mist and cut the plant, now down to only 1.

I did the same thing last year, bl**dy annoying.
Good job I planted two of them.  :D

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Re: cucumbers
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2012, 17:08 »
i have 6 plants and i just cut mine back last night as they were like triffeds.
lots of baby cukes on them.
also my courgettes plants have huge leaves on them , never seen them so big!
these 2 take all my time, whatever is left the veggies get, poor hubby is at the end of the queue.

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Re: cucumbers
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2012, 20:12 »
I just picked my first home grown one ever, tried growing them last year for the first time but they never came to anything. We had one for tonight's salad along with a couple of freshly picked Cos Lettuce and spring onions all from my garden.

Lovely it was to  ::)

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« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2012, 20:33 »
Ok green with envy of everyone who are harvesting their cukes. I have 6 plants all putting out dozens of flowers, but, they keep falling off. Have 6 cukes which are about 3cm in lenght and seem to have been this lenght for agessssssss.
Now to top it all off the leaves are developing mottled brown patches and are curling up and dying  :(
 


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