Or “Future Pickles,” since that is what they will end up being!
My 3 cucumber plants are also parthenocarpic like the zucchini (doesn’t require pollination to set fruit). The plants had lots of female flowers with little baby cucumbers, but once the flowers fell off, the babies didn’t seem to be growing any larger. I was afraid that they weren’t going to produce.
But ignore them for 2 days, and this is what you see!
There are 5-6 cukes fattening up on the vines now. And hopefully more every day.
I’ll be using the garlic that I harvested for those pickles:
These were the only 2 remaining plants from the 9 cloves we planted last fall. You’re supposed to harvest in the fall, but the leaves were already turning brown. And I was just dying to see whether they grew into bulbs anyway! They sure did. They’re very small, but if they’d been able to grow the rest of the season, I think they’d have reached a nice size. The bulbs were very deep in the soil (clay) too. I think the freezing & thawing, plus being planted where I hadn’t loosened the soil much led to that.
We’ll try again this fall! I’d like to try growing some hard and softneck varieties this time.
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