I have some borage growing along the garage side of the garden. I keep forgetting to do something with it. Looking back west and south, I have a cucumber plant growing next to the borage. This is the area to the east of the entrance, …

Sadly the large cucumber plant in the border has died. I think I got the stem too wet and it’s rotted. They’re a funny plant ; need a lot of water but a wet stem is often a killer. They much smaller plant in the large pot continues to …

If you remember, I ruined the first watermelon that it produced, but there’s another one getting really big, and a few smaller ones growing . Hopefully they’ll turn out good! My Zucchini Plant : garden 004 (Medium). This is the second zucchini we’ve … The plant itself is starting to shrivel up and die. Guess this will be the…

It is a case of grow one get one free for one lucky gardener who has managed to nurture a monstrous double cucumber . After planting the seed in March this year, little did Arthur Clark know his cucumber plant would produce such a rare …

Over in the greenhouse we took a shot of my pot growing Egyptian cucumber plant . So far we’ve had over a dozen really nice fruits from this one plant and it’s still going strong. They’re small fruits, but that’s OK. …

The porch tomatoes are growing well; however, one has grown so much that I needed three corkscrew supports to hold its weight and train it to not overtake the asparagus growing behind it and the zucchini/ cucumbers growing in the front of … Everyone told me about the incredible yield I would get by planting 6 zucchini and 6 cucumber in my raised bed. Out of the ones I planted, 3 zucchini have grown…

Cucumber growing well 2nd August. Looks like we might have success with the cucumber plant . It is growing every day. Labels: cucumber plant . 0 comments: Post a Comment · Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Weather …

A few months ago I was given a cucumber plant and a tomato plant by my mother-in-law so by now I was hoping to be picking and eating lots of delicious home grown tomatoes and cucumbers with Freya. … handfuls of their soil carried off by Lyla) with the help of some seaweed plant food and a change …

Below left is my late last minute idea of planting a cucumber plant in early June. It grew really well and gave me over ten cucumbers . Below middle is my King of the North peppers. They grew wonderfully. I dried most of them and cooked …

I’m obviously not skilled enough to grow something from the seed. So I didn’t even try. I planted my seedlings: two tomato plants (one roma, one big boy or whatever they’re called), one cucumber plant and one zucchini. …

The cucumber plant has really taken off and there are lots of little lemon cucumbers on the vines. I can’t wait to see them all pop up. I’m growing very fond of the container gardening. The plants are so much cleaner, less buggy, …

Yep, you know it, I had no idea what a cucumber plant would look like once it started to grow ! I did know, however, that the squash would bloom a yellow flower before making its veggie. But I didn’t know about the cucumber making a …

So I planted one pickling cucumber plant and have it growing /trained along a trelis. So far, it’s produced two cucumbers . I want to make pickles but I’m not sure if I’ll have enough to pickle and eat for salads since I only have one …

It may seem counter intuitive, but thinning and pruning your plants will yield larger crops of food. Plants need good air circulation and room to grow so by trimming excess leaves, you are creating a larger space for your plants to … It might be as simple as tucking a tomato branch back into its cage or pruning a discolored leaf from your cucumber plant . …

I have several tyre towers in the garden in which to grow courgettes in the summer, filled with home-made compost. Last year the cucumber plant I grew in one of these did quite well but I didn’t like the bitter taste of the cucumbers , …

Lacking a yard or patch of dirt to call my own, I boldly set up 11 tomato plants , 1 tomatillo plant , 5 varieties of beans, 3 varieties of squash, 1 pumpkin plant , 1 watermelon plant , 1 cucumber plant , rhubarb, shallots, strawberries, lavender, basil, … But if you are trying to grow a vegetable that doesn’t want to grow in your climate (for example, tomatoes in the Pacific Northwest… noticing a tomato theme?) you may have to