Yay!!

[dreamflower]

I HAVE A CUCUMBER!!!

It had to have been growing for a few days--I found it today, hiding under some leaves. It's only about 6" long, but it's about 4" around!!

*grin* I think I will pick it tomorrow!

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[claudia603.livejournal.com]

WHOOT!!!!

[dreamflower]

*grin*

[gloryunderhill.livejournal.com]

Yipee! Cukes! When I was a kid my mom grew cucumbers because she canned dill pickles. Since she only really wanted the little ones, we had free reign to eat all the big ones we wanted. My step-sister and I would take a cooler of ice up the hill, pick a bunch, and stick them in the ice. Then we'd lay on a blanket, sunning ourselves and reading or listening to records until the cukes were cold. We sliced them up and ate them not more than 2 feet from where they were grown. Fresh cucumbers always say "summer" to me.

[dreamflower]

Oh, that sounds like such a lovely summer memory!

[lilybaggins.livejournal.com]

Eee, salad!!!!

LOVE cucumbers with some vinegar and sugar...

[dreamflower]

I love to make pickles. I hope that I'm going to have enough to make a batch!

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well done!

[dreamflower]

Thanks!

[garnet-took.livejournal.com]

Your title of this post made me smile. Growing cucumbers was always one of the things I thought was cool about mom's garden when I was a kid. Of course, our lab/setter mix thought cucumbers were wonderful. She snach one and run off with it and eat it all.

One day, after the dog had got into the garden, my dad found a cucumer skin with a little bite out of it and all the insides gone. We still don't know how that dog got all the stuff out of there through such a small hole.:)

Happy summer and happy eating.

[dreamflower]

A cucumber eating dog! How funny! I wonder what Sam would think if a cucumber eating dog got loose at Bag End? LOL!

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Yum... self-grown vegetables!

[dreamflower]

Yep. We've already had the radishes, and we've been using the onions already. We also have a nice pepper--but it's not quite big enough yet. And I've been using my herbs as well.

It will be a while before any of the tomatoes are ready though.

[mumstheword54.livejournal.com]

EEeee! Yummy!

I'm hoping we can have some home-grown veggies next year. We've gotten a couple of 30-gal. molasses tubs that will hold veggies or flowers, so NEXT year we should be able to have something. I'd love to grow tomatoes, bell peppers, carrots, okra, and definitely cucumbers -- but in-ground veggies are quickly devoured by bunnies and Bambis. So big containers up on the porch may work; if not, we'll have more containers for flowers!

Oh, I haven't told you: Milady's upside-down tomato is thriving and producing clusters of orange tomatoes! Her other plants, in molasses tubs, had taken a beating from the hail storm last month, but they're full of blossoms now -- but not one tomato; too hot for the blooms to set, I guess. Anyway, she's enjoying having the upside-down one on her patio. Thanks for the example!

[dreamflower]

My gardening is all containers, too. My main garden is a cattle trough! We bought it at a local farm supply store, and I painted it with outdoor acrylics, to make it a bit more decorative. It's very large, and holds a lot of plants. Then I'm using all different sorts of pots and containers for my other plants, and the buckets for my upside down tomatoes.

None of my tomatoes are ready yet, but my Early Girl is bearing. I hope they ripen soon--especially with the "tomato scare" going on right now.

[shirebound]

Wheeee!!

And I have a mini-tomato!

*bounces*

[dreamflower]

Yay! *bounces with you!*

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Yay for homegrown veggies. :D Enjoy!

[topaztook.livejournal.com]

Yum! [is envious of you for having vegetables already] One of my two tomato plants has tons of blossoms on it already (a Boxcar Willie), but they are getting a bit buffeted by all the winds we're having.

[etharei.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :D

I quite envy you your garden; when I was younger and we lived in a house with a front yard, I was forever trying to grow stuff, much to the chagrin of my mother. Could really only manage bean sprouts, which to a six-year-old is the most brilliant thing ever ^_^ but of course they hardly need any help to grow.

Maybe you should keep a scrapbook of your gardening achievements (<-- suggested by a photo-holic).