Growing Like a Weed

A sixteen (16) (!!!) year old quits gardening; his mother ambles and rambles on this blog

The Accidental Cucurbit

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Growing Like a Weed

Somehow it found itself in the same pot as our papaya-mango?

We thought it was a pumpkin but when the first flowers appeared, uh uh. Looks like a cucumber flower! Anyone want to hazard a guess?

Apple Cucumber II

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Growing Like a Weed

Remember my post on the apple cucumber? It’s flowering now, and you can just see the little bud behind. According to the Thompson & Morgan website (I think that’s where Novice Gardener got the seeds from), apple cucumbers are supposed to be really yummy. So I hope we we get at least ONE apple cucumber to taste.

Apple Cucumber

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Growing Like a Weed

Novice Gardener’s apple cucumber did not do well. Our plant is very green and is now budding. But we are not sure if it will come to fruition. It is very hot nowadays.

Hourglass Cucumber

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Growing Like a Weed

Here is the cucumber growing on our neighbour’s side of the fence. It is very ~~sexy~~ attractive. It has an hourglass shape! I can tell you who in our family does NOT have an hourglass shape but she will KILL me so I better not.

Mummy thought the cucumber wasn’t pollinated properly so that’s why it is shaped so oddly. But the reason (from my gardening books my Pediatrician gave me for my birthday) is that it the plant was deprived of water then given a lot of water, so the fruit develops irregularly.

The Firstborn Cucumber

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Growing Like a Weed

Here it is. It is still pokey and warty so I don’t think it’s ready for harvest yet. Such a pretty shaded skin! We had about 5 that didn’t survive so this one is special. We have another 5 or 6 on the vines, and Mummy has been anxiously hand-pollinating them.

Cu-cchini

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Growing Like a Weed

We have 2 lovely female zucchini flowers, but believe it or not, this time we have absolutely no male flowers! I told Mummy since they are in the same family as our cucumbers, to use the cucumber boys to pollinate the zucchini girls.

If this is successful, we will have a cucchini! Mummy says maybe we should pollinate it with the bicolour corn from Taiwan, then we would have a bicchini. Get it? Bikini!

TAHDAH! Presenting…. [drum rolls]

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Growing Like a Weed

Our first 2 cucumbers! They look rather ugly though. Sorry.

Here, Boys!

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Growing Like a Weed

My cucumber plants have produced more than 30 male flowers up and down the vine. They have enough for a class of boy cucumbers. I have to learn collective nouns for my English exam. Do you know what the collective noun is for cucumbers? It is a PICKLE of cucumbers!

The Ups and Downs of my Cucumber

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Growing Like a Weed

My cucumber that the Paid Gardener got for me have had their ups, and their downs, then their ups and downs, then their ups, then their upper ups, and now they are down with powdery mildew. But I enjoyed taking the artistic shots anyway.