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By: emucorp
5/11/2009
8:13 pm

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Cucumbers

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No. I am not MIB.

I'm growing cucumbers as a project with the kids and so far it's been a roaring success. We have 3 plants that are around 4ft tall and flowering madly.

The thing is, I don't know what to do now. Do I need to thin them out? Should I cut them back? What's the go? Will they need pesticide? If so, what?

So many cuquestions ... anyone?

By: frenchyjen70
5/11/2009
8:16 pm

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i've not grown cueys, but grown zukes and just let the go!

By: tess.steckle77
5/11/2009
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I thought cucumbers grew along the ground! Shows how much of a green thumb I have lol

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5/11/2009
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By: emucorp
5/11/2009
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They do grwo along the ground but I've trained them up whatsies so they don't take over the place. They're up against the pool fence which should act as a trellis now but they're like friggin Triffids.

By: emucorp
5/11/2009
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Ahhh cheers thanks for the site - I'll check it out.

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5/11/2009
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By: loocy_lastik
5/11/2009
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Eat em?

By: indianaharrison
5/11/2009
8:24 pm

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nick off melli
go over to cracker.

your not welcome here

By: emucorp
5/11/2009
8:25 pm

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I've got tomatoes and cucumbers in at the moment along with p *** ly and basil etc

Just finished a crop of carrots and cherry tomatoes - gotta love the Qld weather - you can propogate all year round though I found a cane toad in my tomatoes last night filthy bugger.

By: indianaharrison
5/11/2009
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i would love to grow cherry tomatoes
how do they grow emu?

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5/11/2009
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5/11/2009
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By: emucorp
5/11/2009
8:33 pm

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I just bought a couple of those rectangular pots from Bunnings Indi - they're about 3ft long and 10 inches deep - have that water reservoir in the bottom. I propogated the seedlings in smaller pots and transplanted once they were around 4 inches tall. They need a fair bit of sun and water so I rigged up an irrigation thingy on a timer (easy to do - again from Bunnings). We had 6 plants going (yes with basil, Melli) - also lettuces at the same time in the same kind of arrangement - and it worked a treat. Good cropping fruit and extremely yum on pizzas!!!

By: loocy_lastik
5/11/2009
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"I found a cane toad in my tomatoes last night filthy bugger."

Nine iron.

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5/11/2009
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"Nine iron."

Would have upset the tomatoes.

Dettol.

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5/11/2009
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"how do they grow emu?"

YOU CAN DO THAT???

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5/11/2009
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"Would have upset the tomatoes.

Dettol."

I bet some really clever told you that.

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5/11/2009
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5/11/2009
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hehe oocy

By: emucorp
5/11/2009
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Oh and because they're little buggers you don't have to invest in expensive trellis Indi - just some dowel or even cane/bamboo is fine. Depending on where you live, now is probably a good time to get cracking. They love heat and sun (but not too much!)

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5/11/2009
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this is a weird subject

By: emucorp
5/11/2009
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"I thought emu was a female ;)"

I can understand you thinking that given my sensitive and articulate nature.