[madcat]

I can't complain about the results.

But ...    you are a gardener! You cant just stop there.  I thought it was in the job description, to say "cant complain" and then do just that at length including the weather/ pests/ birds/ seed suppliers/ spouse/ child/ neighbours <delete as appropriate>.   

But then - you are a Fairy plotmother, so perhaps you have a different rule book?    

[Fairy Plotmother]

I just wave my wand,and..........as if by magic, wonderful things happen! I WISH!!!!
But can't complain!!!!!!

[Snoop]

Am reviving this thread: I've just been tying up my Burpless cucumbers and so far they're doing really well. Already have a few cucs forming. Looks like they'll be far more productive than any cucs I've grown so far. So thanks for all the advice.

But... I had no idea they'd grow so tall! At the rate they're going, they'll be over the top of the mesh shortly. They've each got just a single vine (if that's what you call it).

Apart from the obvious solution of adding more mesh at the top, which might start to get a bit wobbly in the windy conditions we get here, if I pinch them out at the top, will they start to bush out at the sides or do cucumbers not do this?

[Eightball]

Ye they are a vine and have side shoots that will grow just as much as the main stem given half the chance.

I think the advice I read somewhere said to pinch the tips out when the vine reaches 7 leaves. Leaving at least 2 leaves after the fruit. Any side shoots that have at least 7 leaves but no fruit you should also pinch the tip out. I don't think this is an exact science but should lead to a bushier plant. This is pretty much what I did last year and ended up with a decent amount of cucumbers from two plants. Seven seems to be the magic number for some reason.

[Snoop]

Thanks Eightball. Sounds quite similar to the usual advice for squash. Anyway, I've got several cucumbers forming on each plant's one vine, so I guess I'd better start nipping pinching them out now. Thanks again.

[Lincs Lottie]

I am growing Burpless Tasty Green this year. I just read they are an outdoor variety but I have 3 planted outdoors and 3 in the greenhouse. Will the 3 in the greenhouse still grow and produce fruit? They are by the door of the greenhouse which is left open during the day.
Thanks.
LL

[GrannieAnnie]

I grew my burpless in the tunnel and they did fine, don't worry about them! 

[Lincs Lottie]

Thank you!