IN YOUR FACE MOTHER NATURE!!
This lovely basket of fruit was picked this morning. Here are 3 short ones (SpaceMaster (bush)), 3 long ones (Bush Champion) and 1 long one from the deck vine. While the SpaceMaster are okay, next year I will have more of the Bush Champion - the fruit is long and crisp and slender. I never dreamed such a small plant could produce such full-sized and tasty cukes.
Now -- lessee.... Cuke sandwiches. Cuke salad. Maybe even some cold cuke soup. Yum!
See - I'm NOT crazy. Honest. It's just that - sometimes - I get really Really REALLY FOCUSED. 8-/
Yay for cukes. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteI'm at the stage of starting to "compost" the extras. I've been cuked out, I think. Mine act like zucchini--prolific!
Sue - sounds like you have the type of bumper crop I enjoyed LAST year. I couldn't eat, share or pickle cukes fast enough. Nobody went cukeless last year. NObody. *heh*
DeleteNothing wrong with being focussed (I should know ha ha ha ha). Did you sit and have a plate of cucumber sandwiches with English Tea out of a bone china cup {giggle}
ReplyDeleteThose cukes look lovely. I have none two years running now but the year before that, oh my, they were gorgeous. A small variety which might have been Zeina? There is no comparison between homegrown and shop-bought cucumbers, in fact, these days I rarely bother to buy them.
Sorry, dear, nothing so refined as tea and china. (I'm such a peasant.) Wonderful salads, though, that are perfectly delicious! Cukes, like tomatoes are things that I just won't buy in stores. That way, when they are in season - fresh from my garden - they're special, a wonderful treasured treat.
DeleteYes it does pay off. I finally saw one tiny green bean behind those blooms on my Half Runners. I had almost give up.
ReplyDeleteThe cucs look wonderful.
Good for you finding that bean. When there are 'none' than even a few lonely ones are special. Maybe with the weather cooling, plants will try again?
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