I have never had a cucumber before July before.... and yet this year (possibly because I was a bit more sorted out about getting stuff into the greenhouse, also, weather) I have had several.... the furst oone turned up over a week ago before I set off to Glastonbury, there were five needing harvesting when I got back (3x Mini Munch and a pair of Bangkok).... I've even had the first tomato ripen off in June.... admittedly it was on an ultradwarf plant called "Venus" annoyingly the blackcurrants ripened while I was away and despite the netting I chucked around the place I've lost a lot of them, but on the flipside I'm drowning in raspberries.... gotta check the plot, at this rate there might be pumpkins needing pruning...
Yes here in France I already have tomatoes set on the plant, the cherry ones may even be ripe this week, and the cucumbers are full of flowers. And these are outside even! We have eaten two lots of courgettes, usually they are mid July and the early spuds are just about all eaten! So things are quite early on the whole.
Well done Chris, but shame you missed some of those B'currants. I wasn't very early sowing tomatoes or cucumbers but they have come on a treat here too. A several cherry tomato plants producing (now I've netted the green house to keep the birds out) and cucumbers are just warming up, been picking the mini type ones and the full size won't be long now either. Nice crop of peppers coming on and a couple of aubergine setting too! First courgettes too. Yum I love summer :sunny:
Forgot to add raspberries here will be another week or so before they start cropping.
On the topic of cucumbers being early - this is the first year I have tried picolino, and I think this one (picked yesterday) found itself confused by the novelty also! Surely this is not normal?
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Sunglasses are there to prop it up a bit to show that angle.
That's an odd one, a mutant cucumber, I've not seen one like that before.
I'm think I'm growing Picolino too :happy7:
Quote from: chriscross1966 on July 01, 2014, 14:33:33
... annoyingly the blackcurrants ripened while I was away and despite the netting I chucked around the place I've lost a lot of them, but on the flipside I'm drowning in raspberries....
Our blackcurrants aren't ripe yet but they are a bit exposed as we are on the edge of Salisbury Plain. Some are almost there but I like to pick them when they are really black and juicy. I have been picking and freezing raspberries but there are still a lot to ripen yet. Whereabouts are you Chriscross? It's a shame you missed your currants.
What an unique cucumber vjm63. It is worthy of a place in the photo gallery of mis-shapen fruit and vegetables. In there you will see that Tim submitted a very similar cucumber.
See http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,53053.0.html
I'm in Swindon, actually now I've picked the blackcurrants I realise I didn't lose as many to birds as I feared, and the Jostaberries on the plot are yet to come... A lot of the plot fruit is only a year or so in the ground so still getting going, the home stuff ahs been in a year or two more... Can confirm that the raspberry known as Tulameen is an excellent cropper, but is seriously invasive.... next year if I'm a bit more sorted out I'll start lifting the canes coming up in the wrong places and try to pot them... should make an easy to sell addition to the May car-boot sale of unwanted plants.... It also look s like I will get a few wineberries too and the plants only went in this year (from pots).... a lot of my stuff seems to be very happy ATM, apart from the onions which are looking like a disaster in their raised bed.... ho hum....