First Earthbox Spacemaster Cucumber harvested today, weighing in at 12oz. Also got another Black Beauty Zucchini. Black Beauty is proving to be quite vigorous–growing much faster than the other squash I planted.
Black Beauty Zucchini (bottom) & Spacemaster Cucumber
Sliced into the first and likely only cucumber we will get off the plant. Looks and tastes like a cucumber! Pretty cool.
The plant seems to have petered out, so doubt we’ll get more cukes off of this one.
Earthbox "Spacemaster" Cucumber
Finally have a cucumber nearing readiness. This is a “spacemaster” cucumber, which has turned out to be a sprawling vine that has not lived up to its name. I had to add a trellis to the Earthbox to give it somewhere to meander. This is the first cucumber that has developed on it also, so it is lagging way behind the three other squash plants.
Not sure how big it should get
Harvested one of each squash variety this morning.
Multipik, 8 Ball and Zephyr
Peppers coming along. Not sure when the Anaheim will be “done”. The bells should turn orange when ready.
Anahiem...time to pick? The ones at HEB are bigger!
Should turn orange when ready
Once again I’ve been cursed by puny jalapenos. The ones on my plant this year are about one inch long. Next year I’m going to seek out some “jumbo” variety and start one from seed. This plant I got at a nursery. It’s certainly productive, but I’d prefer a bit larger peppers.
Am finally getting some Poblanos. Hoping they turn out to be normal size. Last year the plant produced puny ones. That was a plant picked up at a nursery. This one I grew from seed that as far as I could tell should produce full size peppers.
Poblano coming along
The cucumber is finally starting to fruit. The li’l cukes are teensy tiny compared to the squash. The flowers are also much smaller.
Spacemaster Cucumber Baby
Finally getting some peppers forming too.
First Jalapeno
First Serrano