Thank you for your observations and adventurous growing season. Glad you have produced seed and had good tasting fruits. Seeds would need to be postmarked by November 22, you should have plenty of drying time. Goto this form and complete fir 2025 seed contribution form and send seeds to Anna.
Also, very interesting they germinated on such a cool week, thats worth noting. Skunks are universally the most notorious for wrecking gardens. But your plants made it through regardless the second time around. Im glad you kept trying and succeeded in growing fruit and saving seeds. Im curious about the bitter tasting cukes, on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being extremely bitter, where would you rate the flavor? Is the flavor of those fruits a deal breaker for say on top of a fresh salad? Would they make sweet pickles?
Be sure to save enough seed for yourself, to grow out again and as a backup of where you had started. I really like too that you didnt have disease issues.
Thank you for including a quick link. Tech is absolutely my achilleas. Much appreciated! I will fill it out and send them in within the next week or so.
Edible and good tasting fruit tasted just exactly like a good tasting cucumber. I ate them with salt and pepper. Crunchy and extremely edible. Excellent flavor. The ones a little bitter almost tasted a little pickled already. Maybe fermented in the peel? Probably clash a bit with a salad but I believe they could totally be used for pickles especially because they were so firm still. A five? A bit of a kick.
I agree! I really resonated with Landrace gardening when I was turned on to it. Totally what Iāve watched with my own eyes. In the course I mentioned cucumbers usually end up diseased here so I donāt even really bother. It was suggested I try a grex andā¦look at that flawless fruit! Iāll link the first season post here too in case anyone is interested.
Me tooā¦it took me quite a while to navigate through the website and discourse areasā¦then my laptop died and I had to figure it all out again just using a phoneā¦what an adventure.
As long as you can grow something in a space, thats all that is needed. I have a small backyard kitchen garden, no large yeilds, just enough to eat for the season when everything grows well. I have a 20x40 greenhouse, not usable fir now, it needs repairs, a bad storm took it out.
I appreciate you growing and saving seeds, its the way forward for this project to flourish.
Good flavor can be selected for as we grow but a little bitter can be tolerated while the seed is producing healthy plants. Im sure bitter flavor at some point would be a reason to cull plants, but there are so many culinary recipes, some using bitter and sour, all still good to eat.
Sharing your observations is also important and keeps the growers aware of traits for each growing season. Many thanks.