Pat Kiewicz wrote:
songbird said:


we haven't grown cucumbers here before.
many years ago we grew them at our other place
but i don't remember the "art" of it as that
would be 30-40something years ago.

which brings me to the question of why one
cucumber out of seven would be extremely bitter?

You may have one plant that is, unfortunately, expressing a
recessive gene for bitterness. You'll have to identify the rogue
and remove it.

we have four clumps of cucumber plants and each clump
has two or three plants vining around. i think we are
in between harvests now for a bit. when i go out to pick
again i'll have to mark harvest bins and mark each plant
and see if i can narrow it down...


Hot, dry weather does tend to bring out the worst in cucumbers,
though.

hot and dry is about all it has been. the next
few days we're in the "chance of thunderstorms"
zone again, but i won't believe it until it hits
the ground.

we were surprised by these cucumbers to begin with
as we'd not seen them developing (they're kinda
"outback") and then we were digging garlic and i
noticed one so we checked them all and found six
others.

thanks for the replies folks, we'll see how it
goes...


songbird