Trial and error with cucumbers
I ascertain cucumber trellis raiser online for several seasons with envy . What a superb way to save space in raised garden beds and make it look fancy ! Finally , I was sell and decided to try it in my garden .
At first , the cucumber vine did on the nose what they were supposed to do : They climbed . They crawl . They nose their lovely petty tendrils right up the trellis in book clock time . I was overjoyed ! When they flowered , and their tiny scandalmongering bloom began to grow into teensy baby Cucumis sativus , I almost wept with pride .
When my trellis angle a bit with the weight of the babe cucumbers , I did n’t care too much about it . I just reinforced it and retrieve about who I should invite over to see my beautiful increase . But soon after , I mark the cucumbers were n’t originate as long as I expected . alternatively , they were await more like teardrops .
Huh . I twice - check over the seeded player packet and detect for the first prison term that they werepickling cucumbers , meant to stay small for seduce pickles . But they still should n’t have been round … something was amiss with my cucumbers .
Double huh . There has to be an well-situated result , I thought . I ’ll simply reap the Cucumis sativus before they go all rotund . But no matter how closely I watched those veggies , the baby Cucumis sativus endure from too tiny to pick to the shape of an orange seemingly overnight .
Instead of a basket of long dark-green vegetables , I had a bowl of orotund somethings that looked suspiciously like small , yellow watermelon vine , even though I did n’t plant a yellow mixed bag of cucumbers . But a cuke that face like a softball has to try out the same as a regular cucumber vine , right ?
haywire , friends . They try acerbic and terrible and not at all like delicious , crispy cucumber . Plus , they were all seed , which is my least favorite part . Whether it was drought , flue , or grower ’s error ( a potent possibility ) , my first cucumber trellis experience was not worthy of social media .
think what also happens when your trellis is full of softball cucumbers ? It may or may not flex the metal trellis toward the ground where at least your dogs are happy to snack on them .
You might enquire if I ’ve been deter from trying trellis cucumbers after last summer ’s debacle , and the answer is of course not . I ’ll be more careful about the eccentric of Cucumis sativus I spring up , and I ’ll be indisputable the treillage is well secured because as much as my dog-iron revel them , the cucumbers give them direful throttle . But a garden fail for me means an entertaining story , and that ’s always a profits !
In accession to her love of gardening , Jamie and her family love their animals , even when they eat up too many cucumber or ping over tray after tray of seedlings .
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