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Ella, in my experience, pickling cukes are much more prolific than slicers. The white cukes are pickling cukes. I grow all mine verticaly so they take up much less space. I would think 8 -10 plants would be more than enough. A good variety is Alibi.
Thanks for all the cuke help folks. 8-10 plants sure sounds better than the 30 somebody down here told me she would need. That sounded a bit too much. I would gladly give her that many plants but that a whole lot of potting soil for 30- 3 gallon pots. I'm going to string them up on the outside of her car port. Figure she can walk that far and water and be easy for her to pick too.
I have never had a white cuke or seen one in person before. How neat! Learned about a new veggie today. Do they look like regular cukes on the inside or are they white all the way through?
I know it took me a bit to get used to the idea of eating and seeing egg plants in other colors besides black. First pink striped one I had I looked at it for a long time and hoped it would taste like eggplant when I got done with it.
Oh,.... What are ground cherries.? I need to get seed for another elderly person. They said they used to grow them in NC when they lived there. Don't have a scientific name either to see if I got the right fruit for her maybe in my seed stash or too try and find if I don't. She says they good and she misses having them.
Name: Joseph Cache Valley Great Basin Landrace: locally-adapted diversity
Star: Pole beans start getting longer almost immediately. Tepary beans are semi-vining. Tepary leaves are more sharp than common beans which are more rounded. But since you called them "landrace beans" all of those should be bush beans if you planted 2013 seed. I hadn't quite got the pole habit eliminated in 2012 seed.
Ground Cherries = Physalis = Cape Gooseberries. Aunt Molly's is a popular cultivar. They are a weed in one of my gardens.
White cucumbers are one of our best sellers at market. You can eat the skin because it's never bitter. If they get too big they get fat and round, sort of like the lemon cucumber. They are a small cuke. And they are a pickling cuke.
Well cool! Now I gotta get me some white cuke seeds to try. I love bread and butter pickles and pickled cukes I just wish I could get the art of canning down without worrying about posioning myself or somebody else.
Thanks for the ground cherry info too. Now to locate some seed for it.
Got ya some pics of the beans from you.
Anybody happen to know what I bought? This another plant from my almost 94 year old market friend. Was slow at market and knew she had traveled several hours to get there and she mainly only had indoor cactus with her and a few begonias, so I popped over to see what I could get to help her out with making sure she had enough gas money to get back home. Cactus I didn't need but found this hiding in her stuff.
This is what I got. Have no idea what it is, but it had unusual pretty purple flowers on it. She never knows what she has either. She just cuts and stuffs.
First is foliage. Second is flower. Sorry it such a bad pic. That one was best out of all I took. The raceme of flowers is very tiny.
Alana, you asked me a question about Cupheas hybridizing earlier. I know many Cupheas will hybridize but I'm not sure about those two species. Sorry, I can't be more helpful!
I have a grove of Buddleia lindleyana, Star. I love it. It can be a little invasive, but blooms all summer and draws hummers galore.
Thanks Danita. I've done a bit of research but could never find anything that addresses those two species in particular. I planted them at least 100 feet apart to try to discourage any interspecific hanky panky just in case. I have a number of C. llaeva this year, but I would like to keep the Purple Passion lanceolata as pure as possible.
I'm home sick today. I'm feeling better now and feeling guilty for staying home.....
Lucky me! I got something for my hummers. Thanks for identifying it Danita.
Poison... Sorry you was sick. Hey don't feel quilty or you will make yourself sick all over again. Have learned the hard way when your sick stay home cuz you either make yourself worse or give the nasties to fellow co-workers.
I have no idea where I am going to put it, so I am going to put it in a bigger pot for now. There's not much soil in the pot she had it in. It's mainly leaves in the bottom.
Alana or Danita... Have you tried to root cuttings from it before? If so how do I go about it. Maybe I can get some small ones going to share with folks. I didn't notice on the PD site, will it make seed that I need to try and look for and save for the swap?
lolol. My quilty has been close by while I've been feeling guilty.
Yes, B. lindleyana is easy from cuttings at almost any time. Soft or semi-ripe cuttings root easily without the aid of hormones. If you plant your new plant in half decent soil you won't need cuttings. It sends up shoots close to the mother plant, and some not so close. I have mine in some of the worst soil I have, which is pretty horrible, to keep it from getting too happy.
Are everyone else's gardens pristine and beautiful? I took a few photos yesterday of places I thought I had cleaned up pretty well. When I looked at the photos where I had groupings of pots, it was embarrassing, Looking forward to the long weekend....
Good thing I live on this hill by myself-no critical neighbors or HOA.
Name: Joseph Cache Valley Great Basin Landrace: locally-adapted diversity
It is my general policy to only post photos of freshly weeded plants and beds. Truth is that I grow many more weeds than vegetables and that if a plant can't out-compete the weeds that it doesn't belong in my garden. This time of year is great though. The warm weather weeds still haven't germinated, and the cold weather weeds are just thinking about getting started.
Not here and no way. Heck it gonna be winter again before I finish dumping pots. Ones I already dumped are sitting in a huge pile in middle of driveway and those that I haven't had time to empty yet just stacked up all over the place and the weeds, well they getting to be about as tall as me.
Going out to try and cut what is supposed to be grass but isn't to get area around veggie plants cleared. Too much to do and not enough time or energy and with the heat can't stay out in the heat too long. I just going along as I can and as health permits. That the one thing about being in country no neighbors to complain about the mess or going around with ruler to make sure your grass is no higher than 3" like in city.
Weeds? What weeds? Those are simply my spring ground covers!
There is a major grass invasion going on in one of my larger beds, though...not looking forward to tackling it at all!
Name: aka GardenQuilts Facebook, NGA and the beloved Winston the pug
Bet I have the least pristine garden of everyone! Now that the sun has come out, I am heading out for a bit. I'll take some more pictures of the "yard" and the pot ghetto.
I have been starting some easy annuals and some perennials from seed, hoping to be able to get some blooms in spite of the late spring and move.
It has been one of those afternoons. My internet went out. I was ready to call and complain, but Winston wanted to walk. (The power/line protector box beeped and woke him up in his little basket under the desk.). The cable guy was up on the pole, so we didn't have to call. He finished just before a flash rainstorm. Now it is nice and sunny.
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guilty vs quilty, yes, Mistrose you got some good eyesight; I will take quilty any day or night of the week.
