My English cucumber problem. Soooo I have about 20 of these, ripe/organic/wrapped. Need to know ideas on how to eat/cook/freeze. All I can think of are vague canapés and quiche. I also have a lot of bell peppers, onions, squash, green beans and grape tomatoes. Hmmmm. #Vegetables#Cukes#Cucumbers#Food
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I’m equal parts delighted and terrified by my #cucumbers. Two days ago I got 15, and forgot to pickle them, and today I got 28 more. Do I even have that many jars? I’m eating them as fast as I can but I’m losing the war. I’ve ordered some food safe plastic 2 gallon buckets to help.
I’m growing two varieties, “Mideast peace” and “Addis pickle,” and Mideast is far and away my favorite. I’m only going to grow it next year. https://www.adaptiveseeds.com/product/vegetables/cucumbers/cucumber-mideast-peace-organic/
Cucumbers, cucumbers, cucumbers and more cucumbers!
This one is on a 50L soil bag (bought from the shop and just opened the bag and planted the seedling in it.
Already had 4 cucumbers from it and these 2 are ready and many more growing really fast.
I will definitely don't need to buy tomatoes until September or October this year and will have plenty of delicious ones to eat.
Unfortunately, all the #Armenian#cucumbers were destroyed by the soil gnats and I'm thinking about starting a couple of new ones for the second hydroponic unit. I just love those crunchy ones.
The other 2 pictures are of the small ones growing. Unfortunately, I have to hand pollinate all the time because I'm on the 6th floor of an apartment and only seen one pollinator this year.
And I finished the big planting season! Today I emptied out the grow tent - I had #cucumbers and #squash sprouting in 4” pots, and I got them all tucked ever so carefully into the ground. Some of these varieties are supposed to be quite sensitive to having their taproot damaged, but I wanted faster gratification so I started them inside anyway. Now they’re all nestled in nice warm beds, with their baby root systems cradled in their potting soil. (And if they die or get eaten, I have plenty of time to re-sow.)
The cucumbers ended up in the beds with a blueberry and a tree collard. All the squash are in the bottommost beds at the end of the garden, with the winter squash at the very bottom.
I did plant some outdoor seeds! I had about 12’ of bed space unclaimed, so I filled in one partial bed with bush #GreenBeans and planted the other in some hybrid kale/Brussels sprouts varieties, yum!
I finally figured out where to put the #huckleberries I surprised myself with last week! (I seriously have only the vaguest memory of buying huckleberry bushes?) I planted them on a slope, between the corn terraces and the redneck chicken Green Zone, beside a 30’ noble fir - I think they’ll tolerate all that nonsense. And then the #quince that I do remember ordering arrived. It has a nice logical home, filling the hole where one of the roses died when we transplanted it. RIP rose, welcome dwarf quince!
Still to come, I’ve saved three big, hot beds for #melons. And I’ve got some pole green beans I’ll plant along the fence at the same time, to hopefully come in after the bush beans slow down.
Speaking of slowing down, I’ll be very glad to go back to just farm maintenance work tomorrow! I’ll have chicken and equine updates then. #gardening@gardening