cucumbers

[redbird]

There is a cucumber on one of my vines! I don't think it's ripe yet, and so will leave it at least another day, maybe several, but the first cucumber feels more like success than all the pretty bright-yellow flowers.

There are in fact a lot of flowers, and the vines have found the trellis. I think so far all the flowers are on two of the three plants; the third is growing, but more slowly.

Addendum (pulled out of comments): the third vine is also starting to flower. It looks like those may be male flowers, which would be useful if I'm right that most if not all of the flowers I'd seen so far are female.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

*cheers on your gardening*

[athenais]

I keep thinking I'll set up a raised bed garden one of these years so I can grow veg or sweet peas or something that won't be destroyed by the moles. Hurray for the first cucumber!

[hrj]

I keep peaking under the foliage on my cucumbers to watch the babies grow!

[sabotabby]

Exciting!

I could not find cucumbers to grow this year. But the potatoes seem to be filling that spave in the garden.

[pameladean]

Yay cucumber! Indeed, the flowers are great, but if they don't get pollinated or something else goes wrong, they won't turn into cucumbers.

P.

[tarasacon]

Yay, cukes! :)

[nanila]

Huzzah, cucumber! Freshly picked cucumber is so lovely.