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Discovery of cucumbers!
Jan 7, 2008 | 12:22 AM PST
Tags: cucumber , seed , seedling

My partner found some baby cucumbers in the garden! They are lebanese cucumbers that I grew from seed - so I'm very excited!! This year, growing from seed hasn't been very successful. My eggplant seedlings didn't survive and my lettuce seedlings are growing extremely slowly. I suppose I have had a lot of success with flowers, tomatoes, peas and beans, but not chillies, herbs or eggplants. It's strange because my successes were the opposite in the previous years where I grew a bed of chillies and even succeeded growing herbs indoors. Anyway, these are my very first cucumbers. Are there any pests I should be watching out for?

Tell me about these seeds!
Jul 24, 2007 | 3:15 AM PST
Tags: cucumber , Bell Peppers , onions , long green eggplant , pak choi , pole beans , snowpea

Hi all! Do not be mistaken - these aren't my veggies, this is the picture from the seed shop of the seeds that arrived today. We'll have to see whether my summer peppers will look as cute as this picture! I'm new to peppers, and I thought that it would be fun to buy the mixed seeds and wait and see what color that they will be. I also got purplette onion, Louisiana long green eggplant, green dragon F1 cucumber, mei quing choi F1 pak choi, stutttgart long keeper onion, purple pole bean and snowpea goliath.

If you have grown any of these please tell me some stories - did they grow abnormally or get sick? Were they easy peasy? What to watch out for? I love hearing ppl discussing their vegetables and I've only grown most of these in video games! As a virtual farmer, I got to see all of the stages of vegetable growth in pixels, but not irl.

I recently planted some seed for tomatoes, chillis and eggplants. I will be growing them inside as winter draws to an end. And that's all from me!