anybody having luck growing cucumbers

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anybody having luck growing cucumbers

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anybody have good luck growing cucumber this year.this is the second year i have tried growing and finally i have a couple ,the largest in the pick is about 3 inches long
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Well done JDJunk )t'

I was lucky last year, my first year, but this years are taking their time a bit so far.
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Nice looking cukes - well done!

I was late sowing my seeds this year but I noticed that some are gearing up to flowering and I spied a couple of Crystal Lemon and National Gherkins have been set )t' Hopefully this nice warm weather will bring on the others quickly
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Loads of them! Some are pretty enormous and we have just plucked them all to give the little uns a chance!

Never grown them before, so I am quite excited - they are the only success story of the year!
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I never couldn't grow them after many attempts then I stumbled across a variety called socratees, it an all female plant so no messing with male flowers.
Never failed since. :-D
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I grow Burplus tasty green an outdoor variety in the green house.
My one crop this year thats done really well , running out of people to give them to!
Remember they like plenty of water and I give mine a weakly feed of Tomatto feed.

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we have 2 plants in the greenhouse, 1 is an F1 female and the other ? can't remember the name (think it's telegraph) but it has male flowers, the all female is doing well and we've had a few good sized cues and more coming. The other one is starting to produce fruit so should be ok.
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