Cucumber Nugget

I decided to go ahead and harvest one of the weird curly cucumbers. The cucumber was half engorged and half completely underdeveloped and spiny. I cut off the spiny part leaving a "nugget" about the size of an egg. I peeled it and ate it. Inside the seeds all looked squished together, unlike in a regular cucumber where they're spread evenly throughout the fruit. It tasted good though- just like a cucumber!

There are a couple other quasi-cucumbers available for harvest, but in the meantime I've planted a different variety of cuke. We'll see how these fare. They've already sprouted so I'm hoping for a quick growth to harvest time.

Recently I've given up on labeling all the plants in the garden. After all, even if I forget what they are while they're growing, I'll know what they turn out to be at the end. I've planted more butternut squash in a less sunny part of the garden. A different variety of watermelon. More pole beans (I should be giving them away by the bucket this time of summer, but since I'm not I've planted a bunch more). More zucchini. New yellow squash. More onions. Garlic. More everything! I want my garden to be busting open at the seams! I'll let you know if that happens.