Cucumbers - too late for this year, but..........

[tim]

I have a link which I cannot post for some reason - two methods of pruning.

1. Pinch out the growing tip & let 2 side-shoots grow down.

2. DON'T - just let the thing grow over the wire & down to the ground.

The latter produced the best results.

In either case, pinch out ALL fruit in the first 30 inches of growth to produce a strong plant. Never let the plant go short of water from day one.

[tim]

[teresa]

first time I grew cucumbers was in the 70's that summer we had a water shortage. Hubby made me a large plastic box ( ment to be a mini greenhouse). When dark at night I would tip toe out with two pints of water for my plants so no one would see me just outside my back door.
Well they did so well they broke out of the box and were heading down the path towards the gate at the bottom of the garden fruiting as they went.
I told everyone it was bath water (but it was not) they got feed as well.
That summer a lettuce seed turned up in my garden ( birds me thinks) and our last day at R.A.F Uxbridge we had our last cucumber and the lettuce for lunch.  I have not grown cucumbers that good since. ha ha

[tim]

Happy to say that my 4 replacement cus - started fruiting 24/8, stopped 25/9 - have started off again. The delay was due to umbrella pruning.

[supersprout]

really enjoyed that tale teresa 8) ;D

[teresa]

Tim,
what do you feed the cucumbers on?
I have a comphrey plant hoping to get it going next year for liquid fert. what do you think?
Supersprout,
Glad you enjoied my tale ha ha, thought it would make the new gardeners and established ones laugh, we all start from small beginings ( make do) it was a wooden frame covered in plastic stappled on hee hee the good old days.

[Mrs Ava]

I am still picking lemon/apple cucumbers.  I have a fridge drawer full and am begining to despair!  Bread and butter pickle and delias sweet cucumber pickle will be started later this evening.

[tim]

Outdoors, Emma??

Teresa - I'm afraid that it's a commercial 2.1.4 dilution. But it's not harmful!!

PS = Like this - one of 4.

[teresa]

Thanks Tim your a star, hope your well
Teresa

[tim]

Uxbridge? Used to play Squash there in the '70s. From MoD.

[saddad]

We are still picking white wonder Emma and have about twenty on the kitchen unit... cold greenhouse Tim..
::)

[Mrs Ava]

Outside on the plot Tim, but most of the plant is under a greenhouse roof.  Bascially, old wooden greenhouse roof panels, a decent stake in the middle and a panel resting each side.  The wind can still whistle through the tunnel as I don't block the ends, but I believe it does keep the worst of the weather off. 

[tricia]

Uxbridge? Used to play Squash there in the '70s.

I lived there in the early 50's  :P !!

Tricia

[tim]

Wife's Father's lived there in the 50s. Swakel(e)ys Road.

[teresa]

Me Grays Road, had squirrels, foxes loads of wild life on the edge of a lovely town. Lot bigger now and tunnels going under roads so you could cross out of traffics way.
Ah well back to cucumbers lovely photos Tim