I am learning a lot about cucumber plants this year, it is the first year I have grown them. They are growing quite well and I have many little cucumbers on them. I got to pick 3 off the plants so far. 2 were kind of shaped funny. …

I learned my lesson with tomatoes this year as well– I have a sweet 100 plant that is overtaking everything!! My cucumbers are the most productive, and my pepper plants are actually growing away. …

The good news, according to our Guide to Organic Gardening, Colleen Vanderlinden, is that there is still time in most places, to plant fast growing cucumbers . I'm growing 'Divas' this year and am loving them. …

It gave me some pretty white flowers: It also gave me some seed pods so I may see if I can plant another round this year since they grow so quickly: The cucumber plant that has also grown from seeds is growing well too. …

Cucumbers seem to be the big producer in our garden this year…and what's interesting is that we're not big on eating lots of cucumbers nor pickles . I just planted lots of cucumber seeds because historically in the past …

One more loook at the terrace garden. Vegetables are on the left side. You can see tomato cages and a bamboo screen for cucumbers. I probably don't need it this year since cucumber plants grow very slow. …

We're having a bumper cucumber crop this year, but there comes a point where it's just silly and a waste of resources (time, jars, propane) to put away more. I'm providing for our needs, not stocking a pickle warehouse. …

It's an Arkansas pickling cucumber plant from some heirloom seeds I bought a year or two ago. I've tried several times and ways growing from seed and haven't succeeded yet. This year we'd all but given up on our garden. …

This year I expanded my garden by two rows to grow more vegetables, but only a few plants are producing. I am wondering if my garden is running late this year or if something is wrong with my plants . …. Cucumbers — Blossoms galore but no cukes yet. Are these late? Will they produce? It almost seems that there are too many blossoms. I love cucumbers , too; …

I pulled everything up in the fall. This year when I went to plant my cukes (nothing but cukes this year), this plant was already growing . I assumed it was a cucumber plant that sprouted from a seed left last fall. …

We are going to start picking pickling cucumbers tomorrow so if you want to make some pickles this year get your order in today! You can call us at 519 482 3020 or email us at teemfarm@gmail.com to order. …

Every year God blesses us with a “mystery” plant . These come up all on their own…meaning we did not plant them. This year we have a pumpkin. There are 3 separate plants growing in the front of our house. YEA! … This is one of our cucumber plants . We planted 4 hills of cucumbers . One…

First Pickles of the year. All the cucumbers I've been picking finally met their destiny. This isn't all of them, just the most recent pick. From the Ball Blue Book of Preserving, here's the recipe: Ingredients: …

This year though I decided to experiment a little with new growing methods: because of space constraints I can't let cucumber plants trail across the ground, and because a trellis for them would be in the way and shade other crops, …

So I decided to plant a little garden at the homestead this year. Being that I have trouble doing small things my little garden turned into a big garden (25 tomato plants , 18 pepper plants , 10 cucumber , 80 stalks of corn, 10 squash and zucchini … In the past I've only been successful growing jalapenos and killing everything else beyond that. Just this evening the kids and I picked a dozen cucumbers…

Plus I decided I didn't really like cucumbers all that much so there was no reason to have more than one of those plants anyway. So this year we planted one cucumber plant (from seed!) in a barrel all by itself far away …