Cucumber Plants

[Alison]

I'm growing mirella on the lottie and passandra at home in the greenhouse. Have some crystal apple seeds too but not sure if I'm going to grow them as I want to save seed from the mirella and therefore don't want any other cucumbers too close or I could end up with anything.

[JamesA]

Going to be having a go at the miniature whites as well for the same reason as you Nell. Fingers crossed for both of us

[Mr Marrow]

marketmore always takes some beating

[Herbie]

I'm growing Marketmore and Burpless tasty green, my first time growing cukes outside though

I will also be doing the same, although may do an extra marketmore to see how it does in the greenhouse.

[selfraising]

This is my first year of growing cucumber from seed and I'm going to try cucino.

[pipscariad]

Another first time cucumber grower here, I'm trying Marketmore - pleased to see it has had a few good reports. Oh, how I wish I had a greenhouse...

Hope they do well, as we go through cuc's at the rate of knots in this house, the children love them, can't get enough. Fingers crossed!

[kernowyon]

I am trying a taste of Italy one this year - Slangen Longo Da China,
we are also growing a gherkin called Regina from Slovakia for pickling, these are realy reliable and very prolific, still have jars and jars and jars of them!!

would have liked to try crystal lemon but got sent free carrots instead. boo

[Farmer_Gyles]

i've tried a couple of varieties over the last couple of years, but the cucumbers are always bitter and inedible
this year i'm trying marketer and marketmore and can't remember 3rd variety, and hoping for better results than in the past ....

[King Carrot]

I've never grown a Cu successfully outside here, but my parents always grew Cus very successfully outside on their allotment in London – Marketmore and Burpless Tasty Green are among the ones they grew if I remember correctly.

I also grow those two in a cold greenhouse alongside Telegraph Improved while Rocky F1 and Wautoma from Real seeds are successful here in cold frames.

The cus were my only real success last year, I suppose the humidity and the fact they were sheltered under glass/plastic must have suited them!

[-pat m]

Rat is that you cue production from last year?

If so wow and you are a great aspiration for me this year.

Regards

Pat

[sewer rat]

Rat is that you cue production from last year?

If so wow and you are a great aspiration for me this year.

Regards

Pat

Yes that's last years crop. The first year I had 60 plants and found that I had too many cukes. Last year I had 45 plants and still too many cukes - despite having forty veg boxes to fill per week, plus a Farmers Market every second week and callers to te field as well, plus taking home a heap to pickle or put into picallili. They receive no special treatment other than they are planted into the tunnel soil which is liberally mixed with FYM at the start of the season and when I plant them, I sink the pot they were grown in alongside the stem, and this is where I water them as this prevents the stem base getting wet and helps prevent stem rot / basal rot call it what you will. Other than that they get tied in and pinched every other day and that's it.

[selfraising]

Yes that's last years crop. The first year I had 60 plants and found that I had too many cukes. Last year I had 45 plants and still too many cukes - despite having forty veg boxes to fill per week, plus a Farmers Market every second week and callers to te field as well, plus taking home a heap to pickle or put into picallili. They receive no special treatment other than they are planted into the tunnel soil which is liberally mixed with FYM at the start of the season and when I plant them, I sink the pot they were grown in alongside the stem, and this is where I water them as this prevents the stem base getting wet and helps prevent stem rot / basal rot call it what you will. Other than that they get tied in and pinched every other day and that's it.

Sorry to ask what is probably a daft question but what do you mean by pinched every other day?

[sewer rat]

Sorry to ask what is probably a daft question but what do you mean by pinched every other day?

The cukes I grow are F1 All female varieties and the cukes are formed on the main stem. As with tomatoes, sideshoots are formed at the point where the branches (for branches read leaves) leave the main central stem and these will grow to become secondary branches and produce cukes themselves. I don't want this, as although I may get a few more cukes, it makes looking after the plant harder and involves providing more support, not to mention more leafy growth to deal with which can cause powdery mildew probs as well as increasing the severity of the prickly rash on my arms from when I pick my cukes.

[ardroil]

ive sown crystal lemon and they all cae up fine, i repoted them into 3" pots and put them into the greenhouse and they now seem to be dying, they are all folding over and starting to shrivel up, WHATS GONE WRONG did i put them into the greenhouse too soon!!!!

[kitchengardner]

What cucs are people going to grow

Unwins

Long Crop
Tasty King
Mini Munch

Kings

Diana F1

Johnsons

Sacrates F1

and femspot

marion

I grow Marketmore from Marshalls. Boring I know but they are ultrareliable and even do well outside as long a s you use a cloche for the first few weeks

Regards

Kitchen Gardener