Todays harvest and the mutant cucumber

[dicky]

 :o Picked this little lot today, tomatoes are finally ripening.

Being to think it is a marroww not a cucumber, its huge!!!!!

;)

[dicky]

[amphibian]

My local farm shop sells cucumbers like that, they are quite seedy inside, but taste delicious.

[Roy Bham UK]

Is it "Telegraph" looks very similar to what I am growing maybe you should have left it in a couple of more days, I've had 2 cuc's so far and they were biguns  :o ;D

[jennym]

Roy, mine too.

[wardy]

My cues are in pots and squashed together in a home made frame so the fruits are kind of strange shapes as they've had to grow where they can  :)  Still very tasty if odd shapes  :)

[tim]

Looks more lie a Burpless, dicky. Is it in- or out-doors?

[dicky]

Hi All

This is a MarketMore and it's in a green house.

i don't usually let them get that big but I had a few as I've 3 plants on the go.

Going to do Telelgraph or similar next year as this shorter fatter ones can have a tough skin sometimes

[tim]

A couple of thoughts, dicky.

1. I don't see that as being overlarge for that cu.
2. Being an outdoor variety, why not grow it outdoors & give greenhouse room to one of the very prolific all-females? Meal-size & bitter-free. ***
3. If you have Marketmore (no de-flowering) in the 'house with a greenhouse variety, it could well cross-pollinate & cause bitterness??

*** like these?

[dicky]

Hi

It was more the girth than the length that was mutant (sorry ladies) :-X

This year i only have all female varities, next year i wantto do telegraph in doors, then i'll only plant those, was wondering about the cross pollinisation issue