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Old August 14, 2008   #1
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Default Are cucumbers supposed to get this big?

One of my cucumber vines disappeared in a shrub. I thought I had been checking and never found any cucumbers. Today I was behind the lattice and in the center of the shrub I found these! Never knew a cucumber would keep on growing like these did!
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Are those cukes or marrow? Given the size, skin and colour they remind me of marrow. But I'm no expert. And if they are truly cukes...sounds like you need to follow the advice Carolyn gave to Tomtrees.....move your garden and stop growing on top of a nuclear waste dump.... Sorry couldn't resist.
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My daughter-in-law grew one about that size a few years ago. It was bigger around that the neck of a quart-sized mason jar. I had never seen one like that, or these. Congrats on a a double mega cuke.


Or should those be called Nuke Cuke's
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Hehehe no they are cucumbers, one is a Diva and the other a Sweet Success! Nuclear waste dump, hmmmm actually they are growing in peat in concrete block holes that are sitting on top of some black stuff that could be landscape fabric but looks like roof stuff to me Fertilized with compost tea, alfalfa tea, and one time seaweed!

I am still laughing over these and wondering if they have any taste left! Big one is 18 inches long and 9.5 inches around and weighs 4.5 pounds!

By the way what is Marrow?
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Thanks Ted,
Any idea if your daughters was edible? or just seedy?
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It was edible, but I can testify that the taste was sort of bland. It was from a plant she bought locally in Northern VA. We were visiting and she was making Jalapeno Jelly.


I originally thought it was a ceramic decoration. She used part of it for bread and butter pickles. I didn't get any of those.
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Marrow is a squash not unlike a zucchini, but lighter in colour and can grow absolutely huge if you let it.
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Thanks Zana, had never heard of Marrow before! Learn something new here every day!
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I had a Diva sneak up on me last year that was a little smaller than yours and it still tasted good, kind of suprised me. Diva is in your right hand correct?
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Actually the diva is the larger one! The one in my right is the sweet success, only way I can tell is most of the sweet success have a dimple or two halfway down! I am going to cut it soon as the novelty wears off! I have to say this is the largest thing grown in my garden this year

I have a couple more that were sneaking in my gardenia bush that are larger than I thought a Diva should be so am glad to know they will still taste good!

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Yep, cucumbers are like zuchinni's if you forget them a while you come back to a giant fruit. The only thing is that sometimes it kills the plant. Had that happen with a lemon cucumber got a super large one and the plant died, so I try to cut them before they get too big, but some hide from you.
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had great crop of Sweet Success cukes this season, typically 10-12 inches, quite productive, very crisp, sweet, not bitter at all. They ran up a 6-foot trellis, some were hard to see and did get surprisingly large. Or maybe they were just "shy."
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I will definitely plant this variety of Sweet Success again! My original two plants are still growing and producing, this cuke did not need to be replanted every couple of weeks, it just keeps going and going and going!

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