My sorry-a$# Japanese cucumbers
 

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Sell them as "organic" cause they look just like the ones I saw in the store yesterday.

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They look good to me. How do they taste?

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Nothing wrong with them. I would make pickles.

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I was thinking the same thing. Refrigerator pickles... if there's not enough to bother canning.

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Maybe if you try growing African Cucumbers instead of Japanese Cucumbers?

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They'd get big enough...



...But they wouldn't work for anything! :hahaha:

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The only difference between yours and the ones I see in the grocery store over here is that yours are curved. I'd eat them if I were you.

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Probably has something to do with that city in your avatar.

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My favorite cuke is sweet slice. Burpless, delicious, grows great here.

Any blooms on your tomatoes yet?

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Nothing yet... :bear_sad:

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I know a couple women that might like em.. :s1:

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So far, my success rate with cucumbers has been really low due to, I believe, powdery mildew and vine borers. I had a patch earlier this spring/summer that started out great, grew up a thick beautiful canopy of vines and flowers, but just keeled over and died within a week. I was only able to pick a few small cucs.
I'm growing another patch right now using a different variety in a different area. These plants look less lush, but are flowering and setting fruit much earlier. So far so good.

I think a key to success here in the garden is to diversify. Several varieties in different locations. I've got my garden split up into four areas around the house. Where one struggles, another thrives. Don't give up. There's still a lot of summer left.

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I use patches too. Every thing I plant is all together in its own area. Makes it easy to cut the grass, and eliminates weeding. As soon as the plants get tall enough I mulch them with straw. No weeds, and it holds water. Maintenance free gardening that always produces high yieds for me. I can grow everything except corn, because raccoons always destroy it.

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They are the right size. American cucumbers are much bigger. Don't worry. I grow those cucumbers in Japan and they taste fine with tuna, mayo and black pepper.

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Early last summer I imported in a truck load of mushroom compost, which I think was from commercial greenhouse leavings. Unfortunately it came with powdery mildew mycelia. Wet-able sulfur is supposed to help, but it's said not to use around cucs. I've tried Neem oil and baking soda with limited success.
I've been doing the straw mulch as well, but one problem with that are pill bugs and snails.
One of my current goals is to become a master composter and soil builder.
I live on top of a Pleistocene sand dune deposit, almost at the top of a great hill of sand. Well, sixty feet high anyway, which is high by Florida standards. Due to the geographic layout we get some mighty winds that roar through stealing surface moisture and what doesn't get stolen sinks down to the water table.
So, I've got a LOT of soil building to do.
Right now, I'm able to grow enough varied produce to supply all the veggie needs for three people in sort of a grazing garden way for maybe two thirds of the year. I don't always have lettuce, or tomato, or cucs, but something is always going. Collards, swiss chard, sweet potato's, squashes, watermelons, peppers, eggplants onions, garlic, dozens of herbs, beans, brassica's, okra, sunflower, papaya, oranges, blueberries, peruvian ground cherries, strawberries, and some corn too, although the wind has been hard on the corn.
It only freezes here two or three times a winter and has little ill effect on the brassica's like broccoli and cabbage.

I need to add peanuts. And millet for the birds as well.

None of this is taking a huge amount of space. Well under a half acre for sure.
Just don't freak over the loss of a few plants. A garden takes years to develop. Satisfactions come in dribbles and drabbles, like the juice of a really good tomato running down my chin. Or fresh blueberry sauce over home baked bread.

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that's how our japanese cucumbers look. I don't see what's wrong with them? Why can't you eat them? I don't understand.

Oh, maybe you should water less.

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Did you intentionally place them to spell that out?