Long White Cucumbers
We grew two varieties of cucumbers this season, spacemaster, which was a waste of time and Long White, aka Redlands long white which did exceptionally well in the heat, especially considering that they only received a bucket of water every other night during the worst of the heat, with 4 plants producing over 120 fruit. Looking at them made me recall that the variety Large White Russian, which can grow to 4 lb, is actually a storage cucumber and will hold for months in usable condition, so I decided to put 5 long whites in the shed on the 15/2/19 to see how they would go. About the start of June I noticed that one had a spot of rot starting on it and cut another one today (18/6/19). It was starting to go a bit soft, but otherwise was as good as they day it was put in the shed 4 months ago! They are about 8 inches long for size reference.
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