Restarting the garden

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Might be the end of the cukes. Lots of leaves trimmed out. Biggest haul yesterday. So many pickles.....
Trying to post all of the haul thus far-

 

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Might not be all of them. Lol. Only 6 cuke plants.

 

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Been rooting for you @secuono !
Throw any yellow cucumbers to your critters. When I had about 40 cucumber plants many years ago I missed a LOT of them. They were HUGE! and I threw them over the fence for the ponies to eat.
Last year I did a "right before the freeze" cucumber harvest and discovered that the small ones pickle Really well and were also tender and sweet to snack on.
You CERTAINLY have a much bigger 2024 harvest than ME!!

 

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Been rooting for you @secuono !
Throw any yellow cucumbers to your critters. When I had about 40 cucumber plants many years ago I missed a LOT of them. They were HUGE! and I threw them over the fence for the ponies to eat.
Last year I did a "right before the freeze" cucumber harvest and discovered that the small ones pickle Really well and were also tender and sweet to snack on.
You CERTAINLY have a much bigger 2024 harvest than ME!!

Definitely not!
All are pickles. Green, yellow and orange!

And only the chickens eat them. No one else was interested.

 

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Seems the yellow=end of plant is a lie.
I've had many yellow and orange cukes, vine keeps going.
Cucumber Beetle seems to be the problem. Ugh. I've seen a few, but don't want to poison the garden just to get cukes. They can be hand pollinated? What time of day? Probably going to net them next year.

 

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Keep harvesting, but, Replant RIGHT NOW! They only take 50-75 days to set fruit, sometimes earlier. Cucumbers are Recommended as a Fall crop.
You could also go out in the morning and knock them off into a bucket of soapy water, and prevent Some from breeding.
I have not really had any issue with them, but I always plant lots of seeds, close together.
You get all sorts of advice for growing crops...figure out what solutions work for YOU in your garden.

 

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Keep harvesting, but, Replant RIGHT NOW! They only take 50-75 days to set fruit, sometimes earlier. Cucumbers are Recommended as a Fall crop.
You could also go out in the morning and knock them off into a bucket of soapy water, and prevent Some from breeding.
I have not really had any issue with them, but I always plant lots of seeds, close together.
You get all sorts of advice for growing crops...figure out what solutions work for YOU in your garden.

Fall? 100f and they did excellent!

 

[ducks4you]

I have been studying/practicing Fall gardening bc my season is shorter than yours, but our Spring vegetables usually bolt before you can really harvest them, less likely in the Fall.
You have time to plant a 2nd cucumber batch and harvest THIS YEAR.
Worth looking into...

 

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I have been studying/practicing Fall gardening bc my season is shorter than yours, but our Spring vegetables usually bolt before you can really harvest them, less likely in the Fall.
You have time to plant a 2nd cucumber batch and harvest THIS YEAR.
Worth looking into...

No. Have too many pickles already.
Things that bolt here are lettuces, cauliflower, broccoli and such.