Lemon cucumber

[poozie]

HI, i wouldn't if anyone had a few seeds of lemon cucumber they could swap for a few 'eight ball' round courgette seeds. I am dying to try growing it this year after I tried some at last years allotment bbq.

Please pm me if you can help.

Thanks

[Alison]

Think I may have some apple cucumber ones if you're interested in them instead? PM me if you want some.

[shirlthegirl43]

Bother - 5 minutes searching through the seed packets and mine are Crystal Apple too!

[nick the grief]

It's the same thing Alison. It's know by about 3 different names for some reason & they are gorgeous aren't they.

[Alison]

Cheers Nick, just assumed that as lemons and apples were different they'd be different cucumbers! Learn something new every day (just forget it again the day after.............). OH used to go on about his nan growing them when he was a kid and got me to source some about 10 years ago - took ages at the time and the only people I found with them was Edwin Tucker. Much easier now, bought the ones I've got growing this year when I saw them in one of the garden centres. They're dead prolific too and seem to crop well without any real effort which is my kind of plant.

[nick the grief]

A frienf of mine put me on to them as they were
1) cheap to buy
2) tasted great!!!

it ws throught talking to him that I found out the Crystal Apple/Lemon (& I can't remember the other one) names.

Also they are just big enought to eat at one sitting unlike normal cuke's so are always fresh

[Alison]

And if you don't pick them young for with a salad you can chop them up and use them in stir fries so still useful!

[serenity]

would anyone consider swapping a couple of these seeds? I have minature white cucmber seeds from real seeds to swap

[shirlthegirl43]

would anyone consider swapping a couple of these seeds? I have minature white cucmber seeds from real seeds to swap

Assuming you mean the Crystal Apple ones then I am happy to send you a dozen. Mini whites sound interesting too. PM your address if you are interested (any news on the purple peas?)

[serenity]

Hi shirl, have pm'd you, many thanks

[dexterdoglancashire]

Got to ask....what are lemon, apple and etc type cucumbers? Do they have a different taste, shape? Thanks!
Bernie aka Dexterdog

[Alice]

Hi DDL, Lemon cucumbers (apple is the same thing) are small, round yellow cucumbers, outdoor variety. I'm growing some and they are great looking wee plants - really sturdy. I haven't many seeds left, but if your interested I could send you 2 or 3. PM me if you want some.

[potterfanpete]

how would you grow them outside? Up canes??

[Flummery]

The year we grew them we put them on the reamins of the compost heap - they shot off! Didn't support them but we got a great crop. Now have DALEK bins so can't do that any more - and I've always got more uses for the compost that I have compost!

[Alison]

I've grown them in the greenhouse too, supported off wires, tend to get an earlier crop and a thinner skin - apart from that taste pretty much the same.