I planted a spacesaver cucumber today - has anyone had good results with these? I planted it in a 24 inch pot. I planted a seedling which I had in a bio-dome seed tray.
I know it's early, but I'm in coastal southern California.

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I'm now a proud great-aunt, to Ahstin, born January 11th, 2006 !

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It's a cucumber plant that stays much smaller than a standard, but gives full size cucumbers.
The seed is available from Park's and Burpee.
This is my first try, and as I can only garden in containers, I have it in an 18 inch pot.

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No, I got seeds too. They came up in my seed tray and then I planted them today.
But after they came up, I read somewhere that cucumbers should be planted directly in the soil, not transplanted.

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Originally posted by weezie13:
Cucumbers resent their roots being disturbed..

I grew regular cukes, but I grow mine up a fence, so I don't waste flat space in my garden..

I also tried the "lemon cucumbers" they were so cute.. and at first they were an optical illusion and wasn't sure I wanted to eat them..
Thinking the would taste like lemons..,
they were only shaped like lemons..

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I grew some one time that were I think called ?bush cucumber and they did well in 3 gallon buckets.

Weezie I saw those lemon cukes...in the catalogs and I had the same thoughts you did.

And yes cukes do resent being transplanted if you are not careful how you do it....I always start mine in the house and transplant them, mine "if" upset wilt down for about 3-4 days and require ALOT of water for the first week or so and then perk up and grow like mad, I have not had a problem with yield and have been transplanting them for years, I also start my cantaloupe & watermelon in the house and transplant them, and they say they should be direct sowed also.

I also will be growing my cukes on a fence this year, space saver and also no bending over and digging through the masses of itchy leaves to find the cukes, and of course you always miss one or too that you find later That is too big to use.

Another thing I also did one year, there was no soil only clay and on the side of a hill, I grew regular cukes in 3 gallon buckets, I placed two buckets about a foot apart and made a little trellis between the two (from one pot to the other) for them to grow up on...The harvest was not as good as if they had been grown in the ground, but we had fresh cukes everyday to eat.

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These posts really got me in the mood to go outside and find lots of crisp cukes on healthy plants !
Come on, summer !

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"I grew regular cukes, but I grow mine up a fence, so I don't waste flat space in my garden.."

How come the weight of the cucumber doesn't break the vine? I need more space. I may just try this.

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Both. Didn't the weight of the cuke on the fence break the vine?

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We have a failure to communicate here. I meant when you plant your other vines and let them run up the fence. It seems like the cukes pulling on the vine would break the vines.

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My spacesaver cukes are about an inch tall now and have their first set of true leaves.
OR..... my zucchini is about an inch tall and has its first set of true leaves.... I got mixed up in my seed flat !

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No pictures, no digital camera either.
Glad I'm not alone in getting seeds mixed up !

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I planted Burpless Cukes on a fence 2 years ago, and it worked out great. Grew them in a tomato basket last year. This I am going to use a trellis.

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One OS to rule them, one OS to find them:
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie.

Some people call it a Tomato cage, it's one of those wire fence things that go around the tomato plants so you can tie the tomato plant up.

This year I want to try growing tomatos using cattle panels instead.

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One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie.

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Originally posted by weezie13:
I do that allll the time, mixing up flats and 6 pks.. I do know them enough though usually by the first true leaves, usually.

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Before this week I could say I have never had this happen But I was in a hurry when checking my seeds and found some that were starting to sprout and placed them under the lights...One was bell peppers and the other was Jalapeno peppers, before they get there true leaves or get alittle bigger, I can't be sure which is which. I think I know but can't be sure yet.

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No more seeds, I gave them to a friend.
They are available from Park's and Burpee.
They have spacesaver zucchini too !

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I Googled the addresses, and the correct ones are: www.burpee.com and www.parkseed.com

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Thanks for bailing me out, Weezie !

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