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Cambridgeshire gardener stunned by bizarre double cucumber
August 15, 2011 – 11:15 am | No Comment

A Cambridgeshire pensioner was stunned when he planted some seeds in his greenhouse – and grew this bizarre double cucumber. Green-fingered Peter Scotney, 66, who has been growing cucumbers for the last 50 years, planted some seeds in his greenhouse in April this year.

Cucumbers – Served Sweet, Tangy & Spicy « GardenHelp.org
August 12, 2011 – 8:00 pm | No Comment

Sweet, Spicy, Tangy Fresh Cucumber Pickle Salad …. Read on for the Recipe! To say this is our year for cucumbers would be an understatement. We've eaten them everyday this week. I gave a few to my bookkeeper to take …

Gardening Jones » How To Grow Cucumbers
August 12, 2011 – 12:17 pm | No Comment

This year I planted mini-whites, lemon, Japanese burpless and a basic slicing cuke. cucumber plants emerging from seeds. here they come. The reason I say they may be too easy to grow is that there aren't a whole lot of …

Gardening Jones » How To Grow Cucumbers
August 12, 2011 – 12:17 pm | No Comment

This year I planted mini-whites, lemon, Japanese burpless and a basic slicing cuke. cucumber plants emerging from seeds. here they come. The reason I say they may be too easy to grow is that there aren't a whole lot of …

Organic Gardening » GROWING YOUR OWN CUCUMBERS ON A VERTICAL TRELLIS
August 12, 2011 – 12:30 am | No Comment

nova and her friend , roberto get to work putting the cucumbers in at the local community garden this year they are planting varieties like lemon, market-more, pickling and yard-long armenians along make shift …

Lemony Cucumber Salad | First Look, Then Cook
August 11, 2011 – 2:46 am | No Comment

This was the best I could do – and I loved them – I probably ate a cucumber a day for a month. I probably should have just made pickles and ate them throughout the year….live and learn. I saw this recipe in Cooking Light …

CSA Newsletter-Box 8-August 10, 2011
August 10, 2011 – 9:42 pm | No Comment

The big news since last week is the “Big Pickle Debacle”. On Thursday we went out to the second planting of pickling cukes only to find that they didn't look anything like pickling cukes. That very day we got a. … they sent and it is not, in fact, a pickling cucumber at all. So rather than 4000+ row…

Easy Cucumber Salad « Lisa's Foods on the Move
August 10, 2011 – 9:39 pm | No Comment

This year we decided to try growing pickling cucumbers in the garden. And after planting them a few months ago, we finally had little cukes. IMG_2222. While I thought about making pickles out of them, when I had the …

Surviving cucumbers perfect for pickles
August 9, 2011 – 11:08 pm | No Comment

Cucumber beetles have been a plague and a nuisance for lots of us this year. Friends report they are finding more of them on cukes and squashes than they ever remember seeing before. I was obliged to plant cukes twice before I finally managed to get beetle survivors and pretty …

Surviving cucumbers perfect for pickles — Maine Living — Bangor …
August 9, 2011 – 10:53 pm | No Comment

Cucumber beetles have been a plague and a nuisance for lots of us this year. Friends report they are finding more of them on cukes and squashes than they ever remember seeing before. I was obliged to plant cukes twice …

Where's My Pickle?! | The Real Garden
August 9, 2011 – 9:40 pm | No Comment

The cucumbers are no exception. Last year, despite a very cool summer, I had my first quart of pickles right about now, but it's going to be a bit longer this year. Still, the vines are doing great and I wanted to show …

Growing Cucumbers in a Green House in North Central BC | Arbor …
August 9, 2011 – 12:52 am | No Comment

Living in P:rince George BC growing cucumbers can be a bit hit and miss. This year I did some reading and decided to do an experiment. I planted 2 Sweet Slice Cucumber plants from seed. After transplanting they were …

Cucumber Mania! | Urban Sprout Town Farm
August 8, 2011 – 6:15 pm | No Comment

We didn't grow any cukes last year because we were still working on the previous year's pickle stash, but this year we have a sizable patch of very prolific cucumbers . What to do, what to do with all these cukes? …

At last Cucumbers | The Patient Gardener's Weblog
August 6, 2011 – 7:16 pm | No Comment

This year my first cucumber seedlings were destroyed by an early outbreak of whitefly. They sucked the moisture out of the shoot and the plants just stopped growing . So I started again and put up yellow sticky cards to …

Greenhouse Cucumbers | Grow Organic Food
August 5, 2011 – 1:58 am | No Comment

Generally speaking growing cucumber is economical and important, because this kind of vegetable is used as a great meal throughout the year. Economically cucumber is the fourth most important vegetable after tomatos, onions and cabbages and a lot …. I think my cucumber plant has root/vine rot? Please look at these pictures and tell me what you think. I've a beautiful cantaloupe plant growing right next to the cucumber plant . It has …

Third Way Cafe (Another Way) – Third Way Media
August 4, 2011 – 1:00 pm | No Comment

I was happy to see nice little cucumbers sprouting on the vine—although they were kind of round and fat. My garden problem this year involved cucumbers … errr, cantaloupe. I have been loath to plant cantaloupe because … Since the “ cucumbers ” were growing , she picked several and put them in the refrigerator so they wouldn't…