Cucumbers

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edited June 8 in Student general

Anyone got any tips on getting them to grow straight and long?

Mine this year were a bit kinky.
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  • System
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    Cucumbers
    Baggybooks wrote:
    Anyone got any tips on getting them to grow straight and long?

    Mine this year were a bit kinky.

    Now why does it not surprise me that yours are kinky :lol:
  • System
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    Sorry, Baggy, but cucumbers are a bit like bananas, they don't like growing straight. Anyway, they look better for having that slight curve.
    Apparently it does upset people in Brussels, they are trying to issue an EU directive to force farmers to put their cucumbers in a brace to make them grow straight!
    I not putting mine in a brace just to satisfy unelected officials! :P
  • System
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    :shock:
  • System
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    Ka8 wrote:
    Now why does it not surprise me that yours are kinky :lol:
    Now you've put it that way...!

    I read somewhere you can put tubes on them, but not sure if I can be that fussed. They were still juicy and looked interesting in a salad, though!

  • System
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    :lol:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    But what about the "olde englishe" cucumber? That is more like a small apple or a small capsicum(pepper), how are you going to put that into a tube? Would it come out looking more like a chilli?
  • System
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    farmergiles wrote:
    Would it come out looking more like a chilli?
    Maybe, but I've often heard that you don't need size for it to hit all the right spots... :oops:

  • System
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    farmergiles wrote:
    But what about the "olde englishe" cucumber?

    Haven't tried growing those. I did see a gadget that let the cucumbers grow in a long square tube - perfect for sandwiches.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Wot, and then grow square tomatoes as well? :lol:
  • System
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    Why not? We have square bread. Makes sense to me.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    What if you have a round milk loaf or a bloomer?
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    I wouldn't have.

    :roll:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    You know, that is a question you often hear in Scotland "Why does one have square sausage"? answer, because bread is square, you daft ha'porth! :lol:
  • System
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    Aye indeed.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    square sausage
    Last time we were up in Scotland when we asked for sausage we were asked did we want links. I asked what was the alternative and the girl pointed to these dried up squares of sausagemeat. We've visited Scotland for years and never come across it before.

    Sorry Helen, I've pinched your thread!
    Wot, and then grow square tomatoes as well?
    And why not square boiled eggs while you're at it - I'm sure there used to be some sort of mould you put them in - once they were boiled, of course:lol:
  • System
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    Jan wrote:
    Sorry Helen, I've pinched your thread!
    Ouch!
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Hides my thread from Jan otherwise I'll have nothing with which to sew the button back on my trousers.

    :roll:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Mmm I was thinking more ouch for the hen's laying square eggs. :shock:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    You've buttons on your trousers Chris and they are missing ? :oops:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    LOL! There's no flies on him either!

  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    this subject seems to have become limp and lifeless :lol:
  • System
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    Is there nothing we can do to bring it back to life? Try blowing on it, that might do the trick.
  • System
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    You could try gentle massage :lol:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    That sounds a little messy to me. Purรƒยฉed cucumber all over your hand. Yuk.

    :?
  • System
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    Well we almost made it to the end of page two of a thread about cucumbers without any smut or innuendo. Almost.
  • System
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    CJC wrote:
    Well we almost made it to the end of page two of a thread about cucumbers without any smut or innuendo. Almost.
    It's almost as if I started the topic with that intention...

    :roll:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    But you're so innocent Helen. If it had been anyone else...
    :P
  • System
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    Indeed I am, Chris. Indeed I am.

    Must dash, need to tickle my marrows.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    And I've got to look to my plums
  • System
    System Posts: 100,537 ๐Ÿค– Admin ๐Ÿค–
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    Mmmm. Plums. Juicy.

    :?

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