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Because hope is a virtue, I just ordered two more cucumber plants, which might produce cucumbers before the season ends, based on the nursery's information about "time to harvest."
I was looking at nursery websites to get an idea of when I'd want to order plants for next year, and saw "now shipping" on these, as well as on tomatoes that wouldn't have time to grow and ripen in this climate. I decided to spend the money and hope it works, rather than sit around thinking "but I could have" and even "well, since I didn't do it when I saw the option, it's too late now" over the next couple of weeks.
Shipping will be the week of August 10, so I have a few days to think about which container to put the plants in: there's one small container I'm not using (though the plant I tried there a couple of months ago failed), or I could put them in with the existing cucumber plants, which are close to done I think, or the cherry tomatoes.
I think I'm likely to get flowers if not fruit, and I was remarking a few weeks ago that cucumber is a fine ornamental with all those bright yellow flowers.
I was looking at nursery websites to get an idea of when I'd want to order plants for next year, and saw "now shipping" on these, as well as on tomatoes that wouldn't have time to grow and ripen in this climate. I decided to spend the money and hope it works, rather than sit around thinking "but I could have" and even "well, since I didn't do it when I saw the option, it's too late now" over the next couple of weeks.
Shipping will be the week of August 10, so I have a few days to think about which container to put the plants in: there's one small container I'm not using (though the plant I tried there a couple of months ago failed), or I could put them in with the existing cucumber plants, which are close to done I think, or the cherry tomatoes.
I think I'm likely to get flowers if not fruit, and I was remarking a few weeks ago that cucumber is a fine ornamental with all those bright yellow flowers.
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