Its been a banner year despite of the heat

[Smart Red]

My cukes are just starting to produce. I tried two new-to-me varieties this year. MUNCHERS are much like Straight Eight. These dark-skinned, almost spine-free fruits tend to grow very straight and long before growing fat. I think they are my favorites for slicing and salads.

The other variety is called BUSHY cuke. It is not very bushy. Right now it is climbing nicely up the fencing I am glad I put there. These cukes are lighter, prickery-er and more like the ones I remember from pickling. They are good, but not {yet?} as prolific as the MUNCHERS.

Yum! With the drought, I wasn't sure I'd get any cukes this summer. I am pleased with the ones I am getting.

 

[digitS']

Yeah, Linn Bee, Muncher was a variety I first grew last year and I'm kind of excited about them!

They are a Beit Alpha cucumber. A few years earlier, I had tried to grow Johnny's Diva, another of this type. It produced something like 1 cucumber per vine! Diva just couldn't recover from another spring that was just too cool for a cucumber . . .

Anyway . . . Muncher did just fine last year and the plants are doing well this year. I'm expecting to munch on 1 of them just any day, now! (I think all of the few that have come out of my garden so far have been Fastbreak. That's an American slicer.)

With the mention of a variety I was very pleased with in '11, I couldn't resist throwing in another of my 2.

Steve

 

[Jared77]

For the record I'm not totally sick of them yet, but the smell of hot vinegar is getting a big old around the house The good thing is I don't think Ill be planting any pickling cukes next year as I've canned so many this year. Saves me some space for something else is always nice.

 

[digitS']

. . .(I think all of the few that have come out of my garden so far have been Fastbreak. That's an American slicer.) . . .

Speedway . Speedway!!

Fastbreak is the name of my tried-&-true Galia melon!

Speedway is the name of one of my cucumbers . . . groan . . . .

Steve

 

[ninnymary]

Steve, fast and speed sound very similar to me!

Mary

 

[vfem]

Oh I am so jealous! I got like 1-2 cukes off each vine before it succumbed to mildew! I just put in a second planting as all I've gotten to do was a couple of jars of refrigerator pickles at best, and those are almost gone! I may break and buy some from the farm stand when I go up to buy some hot pepper. That, is another story! LOL

 

[swampducks]

Keep talking about cukes, I'm looking for new varieties to try next year, so far I've gotten maybe one off of each variety of pickler. One alibi, one boothby (sp?) and one something else (I need to check my drawing.) I probably ought to go pick them now before they get any fatter but my back twinged this morning and I don't want to throw it out!