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Cucumbers, like summer squash and zucchini, can get past you if you’re not diligent. I found this one yesterday in the debris along the edge of the bed where I had planted three cucumber plants on the east side of a bed of corn.

The plants were bought at the Madison farmers market. They were labeled Burpless Bush Cucumbers with no brand name of any seed company. I think they were misnamed, since they set extremely vigorous trailing vines. The fruit was short (about 7″) but quite fat. The plants were great producers and didn’t quit until the first hard frost. The cukes were excellent in quality and taste and we had more than we could use.

A big benefit of growing your own food is that you get so much. It really doesn’t matter if you lose an occasional cuke, or the bugs get some of your crop. As long as you plant a lot of different stuff, most will come through. Since any failed crop goes back into the compost and thus back into the growing cycle, I don’t look at these losses as failures, but just part of the process.

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