My first time growing these outside and boy do they crop, :o they look more like cougettes or marrows even the flesh and seeds inside look more like them than cues but they taste like cues and are quite nice. ;D
I still have loads more to pull, anyone else trying these and having good crops? ;D Last year I grew “Telegraph†with a smaller harvest. ;)
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Mine are doing that too - very pleased with them. Skins go a bit bitter when they get big but the cucumber taste is out of this world. OH bought one the other day thinking I had forgotten to pick. She is eating that one - I am having the MMs. :)
Yes, there's no stopping them is there - have given loads away! :o
I had a first glut of them (Marketmore) and now a second...and there I was naively thinking that they'd be well-behaved and give me just a couple a week ::) I wondered about the bitter taste, tho....so it's only the bigger ones that get it - and it's skin-deep only?
My outdoor cucunbers ('Wautoma' and an anonymous variety which is probably 'Long Green Whatsit' are thin on the ground this year, but that's down to a bad start. I'll know to close the ends of the cloches next time! We had one bitter one, but apart from that they've been lovely.
No clocheing with these babies, they were grown indoors to seedling height and bunged outside to fend for themselves, I'm very pleased with them. ;)
I'm a big fan of marketmore! It's so great to get these bumper crops!! I'm growing mine up a trellis and they like it!! looks good too!
Back to the bitterness, tho. Is it only the skin that's bitter? I'd like to give a couple away (pleeeeeae someone, please have a cucumber) ::) but don't want to risk giving them completely dud ones.
Quote from: Biscombe on August 27, 2006, 15:30:29
I'm a big fan of marketmore! It's so great to get these bumper crops!! I'm growing mine up a trellis and they like it!! looks good too!
Ah! I might try the trellis idea sounds great, ;) be easier to harvest too I would imagine. ;D I presume you could use this idea for any cues? ;D
I'm having los of cucumbers from a Marketmore plant. I failed many times before and this is the first year I had a bumper crop. I don't know what I did differently ???.
Today I harvested four big ones. One of them was a marrow size! Honest!
I like the flavour of Marketmore as well.
Quote from: Alishka_Maxwell on August 27, 2006, 16:57:07
Back to the bitterness, tho. Is it only the skin that's bitter? I'd like to give a couple away (pleeeeeae someone, please have a cucumber) ::) but don't want to risk giving them completely dud ones.
My experience is that it is just skin deep.
Thanks Clang :)
I've got my marketmore up trellis in the greenhouse works a treat 8) & outside - 2 burpless tasty & 1 anon (was supposed to have been a squash?) are in half growbags & winding themselves round the greenhouse staging I bought from Wilkos, twas a good buy that metal staging stuff.
I was pleased to find this morning my cucumber plant that I thought had died is producing 3-4 cues. I had it growing my plastic greenhouse but it wasn't doing well so I just put it had the back of the garden until I decided what to do. Having been on holiday and lots of rain here it fruiting even though it still looks like its dying. Was well chuffed :)
Hi all,
This is my first year growing veg and really enjoying it. Chose to grow "zeina" mini cues which is an all femaile F1 variety] and have had a really good crop. Took everyones advice on the forum and headed to Wyevale for some seed bargains and picked up a packet of marketmore so will look forward to some tasty cues next year, but am really confused about the male flower thing!!! In one book it says pollination is essential so to leave male flowers on and in another it says that fruit resulting from pollination by a male flower will be bitter so to remove all male flowers....would love to hear what everyone else does.