Lesson learned: 3 cucumbers is too many and Eggplants grow too tall.
Lesson learned: 3 cucumbers is too many and Eggplants grow too tall. Robot is trapped.
Lesson learned: 3 cucumbers is too many and Eggplants grow too tall.
My cucumber only grew 10cm tall, then it got stuck growing. Now I’m jealous of your garden
Looks like you’ve got some good soil @John_D thanks for sharing!
I have no idea what I am doing for gardening, just that I love it after two months. My eggplant dropped its only flower so far and it hasn’t grown tall. What’s your secret? I have used semi-rigid thin copper tubing to cage my cucumbers and that is working out. I figure the copper is good in case any slugs come along. Next year I am going to build cucumber, squash and bean trellis tunnels.
The top layer of soil is about 12 bags (510 liters) of Dr Earth organic potting mix. Then I tilled in an appropriate amount of Dr Earth organic hand crafted veg and tomato fertilizer. The base layer of the mix is 2 cu yards (1500 liters) of planting mix from my local commercial nursery (~about $20 USD per yard). In between the planting mix and the potting mix is about 3 cm of worm castings from my worm factory vermicomposter.
Everything was grown from seed except the 2 Kale plants. The 2 kales are about 1/2 done and have already produced about 6 kg of kale leaves that we have cut and used. Already removed are 3 dozen radishes and 2 kg of beets.
Lol cucumbers grow like weeds same with pumpkins, courgettes etc. I remember learning that lesson they killed everything else in the garden . I get pumpkins regularly frowning out of my worm farm.
Cool, I wish my cucumbers would grow half as big as yours.