I love cucumbers, I love the foliage of the cumber vine…it’s a match made in heaven!
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I especially love it when the vines start to take over and wrap themselves around everything…
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However the love affair screeches to a halt when mildew spots start to appear…
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And leaves start to yellow.
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One day last week I became increasingly annoyed at the sight and decided it was time to make it all go away. That’s when I discovered just how many cucumbers were hiding in there. Funny thing I was growing a white pickling cuc and a lemon cuc. I got neither, just short, fat, yellow skinned ones (they were tasty though). So what’s a girl to do when she finds herself with an abundance of cucumbers and no desire to work hard enough to make dill pickles? Well she finds a recipe for refrigerator pickles of course!
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This recipe really couldn’t have been easier (here if you missed the link above) and we’re loving the carrots and red onion I tossed in too. If you’ve got too many cucumbers and don’t know what to do give it a whirl!
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So what am I doing with that empty stock tank? Using it to corral new plant purchases/gifts...
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Some of these will be discussed in future posts, but below’s a marvelous pair that might not be. Can you guess what these plants have in common? They’re both “bird of paradise”...on the left/top is Strelitzia reginae and bottom/right is Caesalpinia gilliesii. One will go in a container and one should be hardy here if I place it right.
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This one is a seedling of Melianthus villosus, gifted to me by one Practical Plant Geek.
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Oh and I’m thinking about starting a fall crop in this tank and would love to hear any ideas you’ve got…
All material © 2009-2014 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.
I especially love it when the vines start to take over and wrap themselves around everything…
However the love affair screeches to a halt when mildew spots start to appear…
And leaves start to yellow.
One day last week I became increasingly annoyed at the sight and decided it was time to make it all go away. That’s when I discovered just how many cucumbers were hiding in there. Funny thing I was growing a white pickling cuc and a lemon cuc. I got neither, just short, fat, yellow skinned ones (they were tasty though). So what’s a girl to do when she finds herself with an abundance of cucumbers and no desire to work hard enough to make dill pickles? Well she finds a recipe for refrigerator pickles of course!
This recipe really couldn’t have been easier (here if you missed the link above) and we’re loving the carrots and red onion I tossed in too. If you’ve got too many cucumbers and don’t know what to do give it a whirl!
So what am I doing with that empty stock tank? Using it to corral new plant purchases/gifts...
Some of these will be discussed in future posts, but below’s a marvelous pair that might not be. Can you guess what these plants have in common? They’re both “bird of paradise”...on the left/top is Strelitzia reginae and bottom/right is Caesalpinia gilliesii. One will go in a container and one should be hardy here if I place it right.
This one is a seedling of Melianthus villosus, gifted to me by one Practical Plant Geek.
Oh and I’m thinking about starting a fall crop in this tank and would love to hear any ideas you’ve got…
All material © 2009-2014 by Loree Bohl for danger garden. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited and just plain rude.