I’m now seeing my first female flowers on healthy established vines. Pretty close to the timing of last year.
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It must have seeded last year, because there’s half a dozen of them now.
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Those flowers are tiny. No wonder I haven’t seen them.
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These photos represent my short term goal for creeping cucumber. Assuming it continues to be well-behaved in my garden, I would like to have patches of cucumber dotted here and there throughout the whole area.
This year I seem to have three distinct groups that are each 40 or 50 ft apart from each other. I’m aware I probably don’t have enough to appreciate the kind of problems that arise with too much creeping cucumber, but I’m very satisfied so far.
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Have you ever tried to transplant this, or vegetatively propagate? I think it might work as a perennial groundcover under my trees.
The inside of my neighbor’s barn is covered with this stuff.
Yes I think it has good ground cover potential and I’m considering similar uses now that I have my population established.
My population does well being separated, dug up and transplanted. I’m pretty sure I see it naturally putting down roots at nodes that become perennial, at least sometimes. It spreads faster than strawberry but isn’t as tenacious once it gets established.
I have also had good luck propagating cuttings. Seems like I take the newest foot or two of the vine and got 40 or 50% to root in water.
I am planting a small orchard at my farm and I’m wondering if I can recommend it to people to plant along stream banks that have been flooded or on former coal mines. Those are two common scenarios in my area.
It seems to love full shade and plenty of water, but does fine with partial shade and low water.
It is fruiting prolifically in full shade.
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I’ve got that all over, here in Central Texas. I’ve never let to get to flowering as it will take over where ever it is growing. I might let it grow and see what comes of it.
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Oh wow that is amazing! Everywhere I’ve grown it is pretty sunny, and the location where my niece originally found this population also gets ample direct sunlight.
I’d like to see what mine would do in more shade.
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Could you say more about what it’s like when you have more of this growing than desired? How hard is it to kill the roots?
I either pull stuff up roots and all, if I can. and if I can’t do that, I aim to cut it off at the ground. Do this often enough and for long enough and it will kill the roots. These, I’m thinking, tend to be fairly easy to just pull up unless its well in there. But then, the leaves remind me of a vine that my plantid app is telling me is an english ivy, so I might need to let it grow and see the flowers and fruit to figure it out!
ah, so similar! I’m gonna have to spend more time with these plants. 