Outside Cukes 2: Inside Cukes 1

[zazen999]

AARRGGHH

So you get a greenhouse so that you can grow tender things earlier and better. And yet one miserable cuke plant in a corner of last year's aminopyralid bed has produced 2 cukes, whilst the 6 inside cukes in good quality manure and compost - well tended, watered and fed have produced 1 between them so far. And the gherkin plant [cheers for the seeds Binbags] has a bigger gherkin than any of the cukes.

I'm sure the inside ones will catch up - but it just shows how the nutrients in clay really are good at growing stuff and how treating them mean really works. Sigh.

Nature. it's good innit.

[Florence Fennel]

Toil of a pleasure Zaz, toil of a pleasure I can hear your sigh from here, and you know what that means don't you? Every time you sigh a donkey dies.

[chris]

I've had 1 tiny cuke, in a 3" pot I forgot about (was behidn others, no idea how it's still alive - in a greenhouse probably not watered in ages). I potted it on last week, and don't have any saucers / trays to water from below so have been flooding the top of it, kinda hoping it'll rot away at the stem etc. I've not bothered supporting it, but it's trailing all over the place now. It's got a fair few cukes on it too.

S*ds law, the ones you don't care about seem to grow the best

[Shadylane]

Maybe I should tell my cuke plants that I don't give a rats buttock if they produce any more then, considering they seem to have decided that one fruit per plant is quite sufficient thanks

[Potstubsdustbins]

1 of my cukes was against the GH door, it suffered wind/sun burn the leaves turned brown, withered and dropped off. I was just about to bin it when I noticed a tiny bit of green higher up the stem, having nothing to take its place I left it alone.

Result one cuke with 3ft of bare stem continued to grow its now reached the horizontal rope in the GH roof and is moving along it producing very nice fruit as it does.

Nature is either wonderful or a mickey taker haven't made me mind up yet.

Colin

[King Carrot]

I think it was just too cool and damp during May to get keep my early cus going once they went into the blowaways and greenhouse.

Out of 23 cu plants started at various times from the end of March, not one edible cu have I had so far. In fact all 4 of the Mirella I planted in a blowaway have now committed "cuicide" so there'll be no seedsaving from them this year or next as we’ve all decided they just don't like it here! Certainly all the earlier sown are now struggling on behind the later sown ones, which on the whole are looking good.( 1 Rocky did finally decided to buy the farm yesterday after recovering from a spot of hesitation last week). The Wautoma are looking the most promising (8 out of 8 still alive) and there might actually be some fruiting action in the next week or so. I've just got the Tamra to fit in somewhere now although it might be too late, even for 4 inch transplants.

[Dane End Dolly]

I cue outside from 4 plants planted (3 survived) just seems to be too cold, 8 cues from 3 plants in greenhouse - 2 white wonder and 1 lemon cue. it is a kind of odd growing year this year with the strange weather we have had so far -baking spring, cold summer.

[Bren In Pots]

My marketmore in the bed outside died early on but the spare I pushed in a pot filled with used compost/soil mix is producing well.