Look!!!  We're going to have cucumbers!!  I love this picture, showing the bumbler inside the flower, the tendrils hooked on the fence, and the baby cucumber.  

 

We plant heirloom seeds, because they produce true to their variety, unlike hybrids which sometimes revert to one or another of their parent plant characteristics.  

 

We've been growing this variety of Japanese Long cucumbers for quite a few years now.  I bought a package of seeds in 2011, and have been saving some each year.  Seeds only last a few years, so you have to refresh them. 

 

These cucumbers grow 18 to 24 inches long, and are always crisp and fresh.  Since they grow up the trellis, they hang down and grow straight, well, mostly.  Sometimes they get hung up in the chicken wire and get all curvy, but still fresh and delicious.  

 

I always plant too many plants, because I have the seeds and I have the space.  So when they start getting ripe, we are inundated with cucumbers.  That lasts about a month, so we eat lots of cucumbers, share lots of cucumbers, and make pickles.  Dill's my favorite.  OH!!  I need to show you the dill;  it's in the same area as the cucumbers.

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!