I tried to grow cucumbers the last couple years, and though I got decent
cucumber plants, no cucumbers. Is there some trick to growing them? I'm
going to try a different part of my garden area this year, maybe that will
make a difference.

Tomatoes and zucchini grow very well here.

Gus wrote:
I tried to grow cucumbers the last couple years, and though I got
decent cucumber plants, no cucumbers. Is there some trick to growing
them? I'm going to try a different part of my garden area this year,
maybe that will make a difference.

Tomatoes and zucchini grow very well here.

I grew cukes last year and had pretty good success. I was giving away
cukes!

I built me a trellis with 4 legs, stapled plastic netting around each leg,
and tied them together at the top, planted the cukes at the base of each leg
and trained them to grow up the trellis. I had 2 set-ups like this.. one was
planted a few weeks before the other one, so when the first one quit
producing the second one was still putting out fruit until frost.


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Natural Girl

On Monday, May 6, 2013 1:49:56 PM UTC-4, Gus wrote:
I tried to grow cucumbers the last couple years, and though I got decent

cucumber plants, no cucumbers. Is there some trick to growing them? I'm

going to try a different part of my garden area this year, maybe that will

make a difference.



Tomatoes and zucchini grow very well here.

Did you get any blossoms? It sounds like a pollination issue.

Gus wrote:
I tried to grow cucumbers the last couple years, and though I got
decent cucumber plants, no cucumbers. Is there some trick to growing
them? I'm going to try a different part of my garden area this year,
maybe that will make a difference.

Tomatoes and zucchini grow very well here.

Did the cukes not produce flowers or did they produce flowers but you got no
fruit?

D

"Steve Peek" wrote in message
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On Monday, May 6, 2013 1:49:56 PM UTC-4, Gus wrote:
I tried to grow cucumbers the last couple years, and though I got decent

cucumber plants, no cucumbers. Is there some trick to growing them? I'm

going to try a different part of my garden area this year, maybe that
will

make a difference.



Tomatoes and zucchini grow very well here.

Did you get any blossoms? It sounds like a pollination issue.


I don't remember seeing any flowers. If there were, not many. But the
couple plants I had appeared fairly healthy.

"Gus" wrote in message
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I tried to grow cucumbers the last couple years, and though I got decent
cucumber plants, no cucumbers. Is there some trick to growing them? I'm
going to try a different part of my garden area this year, maybe that will
make a difference.

Do you have enough insect to ferlise the flowers of your cukes? It might be
worth your while to buy a soft haired watercolour paint brush and go round
shoving it into the flowers of your cukes.