So, when planning and planting my garden I mostly try to stick to things that I know we’ll eat. But I also believe in trying new things on occasion, and so when the seed catalogs arrive every year I sit down with a couple different color highlighters and start marking off the seeds I NEED and the seeds that look cool and the seeds I want. And I try to pick at least one or two from the latter two categories to try every year.
For this year’s garden the one really weird thing I ended up trying was Gagon Cucumbers. They’re cool looking! I skimmed the description, made sure that they had at least a chance of growing well in my screwed up climate (” thrives in cool northern climates, but also stands up to intense heat and humidity” sweet! It has a chance!), and didn’t look much closer.
I took THIS picture on 7/18:
It was maybe 5-6″ long, looking good!
Today I took a few minutes before work to walk the garden, and decided to check on the baby Gagon cucumber while I was at it…..
Holy……Its now a good foot in length, and still not yet fully ripe. It weighs several pounds at least.
I went back to the seed link and took a closer look at the description “up to 20” long”……ooops, and there’s several more forming on the vines!
So um, I guess I have cucumbers this year!
I also found these:
Which are my first ripe Black Vernissage Tomatoes. I haven’t had a chance to eat one yet, maybe after work.
What fun to discover new life forms in your garden.
totally!
Had our first little maters just the other day. Cukes are incredible!
I’ve had a few of the Black Icicle tomatoes prior to this, but only a few.
The minute I read Gagon – I thought it must be for gargantuan. Hopefully it doesn’t get tough being that big (like some zukes do).
donno, expect that I’ll find out though!