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Posted: Aug/26/2009 8:46 PM PST
I went out to the garden to due some trimming on the cukes leaves and found that a cuke was growing up into the stake I have!!! I tried to pull and pry the cuke out, but it has grown really deep in there!!! I guess what I am gonna do is leave it for now and see if it might possibly grow and grow a little fat around more and pop itself out!!!I am hoping this will do the trick but I don't know!!! I don't want to do pushing and prying on it, because I don't want to damage the plant or all the other baby cucumbers!!! Anybody have any suggestions as to get this baby out of there!!!!   Tammy
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Posted: Aug/27/2009 6:31 AM PST
I guess I'm having a hard time picturing what's going on with it. Can you provide a picture or explain it in a different way? |
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Posted: Aug/27/2009 6:31 AM PST
I would just cut it off the vine and consider it a loss. If you can't pull or pry it off now, while it is young and pliable, I don't think it will "pop" itself off the stake. |
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Posted: Aug/27/2009 1:31 PM PST
I can't send a picture bussete1, because I don't have the capabilities to send a picture right now through my computer, but I will explain the best I can. First of all I recycle things for stakes for my plants, I used a shelf piece for my stake- it is 3ft. long by 1/2 in. wide- so in the width it has 1/2 in spacing. Well I used this for a stake for my cucumbers, what a baby cuke has done has grown upward in that 1/2 in spacing, where I did not know it had done this!!! I went to take a look yesterday and noticed this, now the cuke is about five inches long and 2 inches wide on bottom and is totally stuck in that spacing in stake. I have tried to pull and pry it out to no avail, yesterday. so what i have asked is for suggestions on how to remove this cuke without hurting the plant!! Carolyncat. I asked this same question on another website and one suggestion was to let it continue to grow, and when it gets to the length I want cut it in half, and then I should be able to dig it out of there. So I think that is my only option of being able to get it out of there, so I think I will try to do this. I will let it grow a little longer and the cut it in half and then try to remove it!!! My first growing season and I already have a tale to tell!!! I wished there was a book about everyone first farming adventures, because this would be a tale for the books to tell!!!! So funny, but yet so frustrating, because I want to eat that cuucmber!!!!! Tammy |
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Posted: Aug/27/2009 6:44 PM PST
Tammy, Removing one cucumber from the plant, when you have others to harvest is not going to hurt it. I realize you have a very short season where you live, do what you want;personally, I would cut it off. Whatever you do, it is a learning experience-and we don't ever want to stop learning! |
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