Readers may recall my tribute to my neighbor - forty orange tulips to honor her Dutch heritage - earlier this spring. For the summer, I spotted a Dutch cucumber in a seed catalog and we decided to try growing some. As usual, the seedlings started indoors looked very frail in the great outdoors until Mother Nature turned up the heat last month and then they took off. The little cucumber above is one of dozens that are popping up on the vines.
We found a couple of praying mantis egg cases in the yard and now the young ones are patrolling the garden.
We have already picked some cucumbers. They are very crunchy, ribbed instead of smooth like the supermarket variety and they don't have those with thorny spikes that have to be rubbed off the usual garden cucumbers. They are great right off the vine but can also be dressed up with sour cream and dill, which we are also growing.Happy gardening to all and we hope you are trying something new as well!
--Bernice
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