My First Cucumber

[xela]

I was at Russo's one day this spring, when they had table upon table of vegetable seedlings out front. So I developed a sudden urge to try container gardening. And gave in to it.

I used to refuse to have anything to do with trying to grow plants, believing I had a notorious brown thumb. I've had a little more success in recent years, but I was certainly not prepared for this. For one thing, I had no containers. But Alyse had a bunch of empty cat litter buckets; I drilled drain holes in them, got some soil and set myself up as a container gardener.

I had not, of course, actually read the little tags that came with the seedlings, which said things like "plant in rows 2 to 3 feet apart," until I got them home and was starting to transplant them. So as I transplanted them into roughly an order of magnitude less soil then the instructions implied they needed, I wasn't all that hopeful.

So this pleases me immensely:

Comments

[sammason.livejournal.com]

How lovely. How exciting! Well done! This is what, on gardening, is called 'garden porn'.

It looks like an outdoor-type cucumber so it might turn out to have a rather tough skin. It might taste its best when peeled and sprinkled with salt. But what do I know? You've probably scoffed the lot by now :-)

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

There are indoor cucumbers? At any rate, the tag says it's a "Marketmore", which the web tells me is a slicing/salad cucumber. Which is exactly the fate I have in mind for it. But not quite yet....

[gnibbles.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't wait too long. When cukes get old, they get fat and soggy, with icky hard seeds. Eat babies! They are tender and delicious.