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" writes:
What is causing this?

When I have asked in previous years, the most likely answer was
incomplete pollination. Inconsistent watering was another suggestion.

My cucumbers just started blooming, but I transplanted some of my
extra zinnias to the vegetable garden this weekend. That should
help increase the pollinator traffic.


--
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the
last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened
but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
-- Ambrose Bierce