2016 Summer Florida Garden

[ginger2778]

They look so nice Barb, beautiful pictures.

[Bulldog]

Use for the cucumbers. I am juicing a large cucumber, with some spinach, kale, or chard, a few leaves, either half pineapple or oranges, and ginger, small piece for green juice one or two times a day.

I make a beet carrot orange and celery ginger juice also and you could use cucumber instead of celery.

[Ricky Shaw]

Yes beautiful and protected. The things we go through as gardeners, it's an addiction.

[kayrobbins]

Barb, with all those cucumbers you need to check out this site that is nothing but cucumber recipes.

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bcohen/cucumbers/recipes/

[Barb_FL]

My Sweet Success Plant grew a lot in 2 days; Now I think I started it too early; Goal was to have plant with size but not setting fruit so can leave it unattended starting August 20th.

Picture of how my Beta Alpha cucumber looks after 186 cucumbers were picked; not too bad.

Finally, Buena Mulata pepper plant and first peppers - (see rareseeds.com) Kay Robbins gave me seeds. Plant looks so pretty with the purple flowers.

[efisakov]

Barb, nice looking plants. Interesting peppers too (they are out of stock already).
btw I just purchased seeds of few varieties of hybrid cucumbers from Ukraine/Russia. I have being growing 3 years in a row Masha F1 that my mom sent me. It has quite a production. I did not count them last year but pretty sure had many.
I would have to try it next year. Thanks, Barb.

[Barb_FL]

Ella - Once I have picked the peppers, I will send you seeds. I have to check on the color it ends up. I'm thinking it's not purple. My plant has several more peppers set and flowers and is going strong.

Here's a picture of AJI Grande - Seed source - Artisan Seeds. Tons of flowers, 1 pepper with size and 1 just starting. Hoping for more to come and they are NOT HOT. Spring of '15, I grew AJI Amarillo and had tons, many hundreds possibly 1000.

Picture of my Sweet Success Cucumber plant. The runt caught up. 4 weeks from sowing.

BETA ALPHA CUKE UPDATE - picked 60 this week for a grand total of 230.
If I could grow tomatoes half as good as cucumbers, I would need 3 plants.

[Randall]

Everything looks great !!

[Barb_FL]

in 6.5 weeks. 302 cucumbers picked to date. Only 3 were lost to worms.

Single Plant in Root Pouch produced 115 cucumbers
Two plants in the EarthBox produced 187 cucumbers.

A week ago found what I learned was aphids. Found it on the back corner of the EB. Found aphids on the Root Pouch today.

RootPouch plant is on it's last legs. Of the last 11 cucumbers picked, only 1 was from the Root Pouch.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Barb_FL

in 6.5 weeks. 302 cucumbers picked to date. Only 3 were lost to worms.

Single Plant in Root Pouch produced 115 cucumbers
Two plants in the EarthBox produced 187 cucumbers.

A week ago found what I learned was aphids. Found it on the back corner of the EB. Found aphids on the Root Pouch today.

RootPouch plant is on it's last legs. Of the last 11 cucumbers picked, only 1 was from the Root Pouch.

Great numbers Barb. Mine are finally starting to make some lady flowers. How long does it take from the flower's first appearance to full fruit size?

[Barb_FL]

Thanks Marsha. These plants will be done by the time I go to VA hiking.

The first cucumbers seem to take a long time. Then it seems like 3-4 days.
Is this your Cruncher cucumbers?

How are your Sweet Success doing? My 2 plants are huge beasts in an EB; never been outside of tulle which was a mistake b/c plants are so large. There is one cucumber now for several days but not growing much....a good thing in my case.
I've been trying to stall them by limiting the sun. Test is to see how it does unattended for the week.

We are finally getting rain - this is the 3rd day now. That is about the time the RP cuke plant started winding down. It was easier to judge how much water to give when it was dry.