"Phil L" wrote after
Stephen Howard wrote:
:::
::: A couple of months back I asked about growing Pineapples in the
::: UK and the chap at the garden centre and some people here at urg
::: said they would not ripen because they would not get hot enough.
::: I'm posting to say you were wrong!
:::
::: I had two plants both in the green house, but I put one of them
::: under plastic to give a double greenhouse effect. This was not
::: necessary, all that happened was the soil kept drying out quicker
::: (which you would expect since because the plastic was making it
::: hotter...) Both fruits have now gone yellow.
:::
::: The stalk was straining under the weight of the fruit so I
::: figured it was time to harvest them (when is the right time?) and
::: I have just eaten one; it was delicious! Only fist-sized though,
::: so a bit smaller and much more expensive than a supermarket one,
::: but nothing beats home grown!
::
:: Fist-sized or not - you did it!
::
:: I've just cropped my second cucumber - never grown 'em before.
:: I was a bit impatient with the first one, picked it a tad
:: small...and found it was rather bitter.
:: The second one, somewhat larger, was spot on.
::
:: Nowhere near as exotic as your pineapple - but I bet I'm just as
:: smug!!
::
I'm yearning now for a *proper* cucumber to slice onto my salmon
sandwiches!
-My dad always grown cucumbers, tomatoes and runner beans...he died 4 yrs
ago and the greenhouse went to rack and ruin along with the garden...I've
only recently got into it myself after suffering supermarket 'veg' for
this
long....for suppers on a late evening, I would make toast and nip down to
the greenhouse and pick a tomato to slice onto it...I didn't need any
cheese
or any other fillings...drool...the red spheres from Asda, look like
tomatoes, and that's where the similarity ends!
The cucumbers are no different, I swear to god you can tie knots in 'em
they're that old!


Don't need a greenhouse for cucumbers, try "Burp Tasty Green" outside up a
wire fence or trellis and then you have ***taste***, ours are cropping now.
Likewise Toms outside, trouble is you have to wait longer, until the summers
nearly over, to start cropping.

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Regards
Bob
in Runnymede, 17miles west of London, UK