Monday, August 20, 2012

Persistence pays

For those of you who have been following (vegetable page) my obsessive driven insane  determined efforts to wrest some sort of cuke harvest this summer in SPITE of the deer and drought and heat and beetles, I will only say...

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-/ 

6 comments:

  1. Yay for cukes. Enjoy!
    I'm at the stage of starting to "compost" the extras. I've been cuked out, I think. Mine act like zucchini--prolific!

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    1. 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*

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  2. Nothing 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}

    Those 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.

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    1. 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.

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  3. Yes it does pay off. I finally saw one tiny green bean behind those blooms on my Half Runners. I had almost give up.

    The cucs look wonderful.

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    1. 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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