Koi and other carp eat cucumbers and other veg and fruit. Some tropical fish also eat cucumber. Many fish eat all sorts of vegetable matter … it’s very good for them. 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Aye I have tropical cichlids, malawi mbuna. They are vegetarian, and highly aggressive 😎
Me too I'm just watching my yellow lab male digging a breeding pit but competing for the same space with an Aulonocara baenschi that's also intent on mating
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Rubbish year for both my cucumbers and the courgettes, pretty much female flowers only so even with my trusty paintbrush there was no pollen to spread around. Next year I’ll be on the lookout for self pollinating varieties, otherwise I’m giving up on them as they take a fair bit of space on my terrace.
Thankfully there are not a lot of grammar and spelling police on here or I would never have kept coming back, and I would have missed out on loads of wisdom from the lovely people that come here.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
Welcome to the forum @DARCY1. For the past few years I've grown Burpless Tasty Green, they are self fertile and produce more than 2 people can eat from 2 plants. We have made cucumber relish from Doves recipe and given loads away.
We bought one very sickly cucumber plant, dead leaves, pot bound in a 3 inch pot, but with two fruit clinging on to life. Got it home in a big pot, lots of water and feed. It's now producing more than we can eat. Was reduced to something like 50p, and the bloke at the nursery said good luck with it and that he didn't think it would do much.
I think the trick is to get one that is female only flowers. Otherwise you need to pinch out the males, which make the fruit bitter.
Our courgettes are producing loads of fruit, but they don't seem to be getting very big. Good thing there are so many and I like them small!
Gardener of a driveway pot garden - flowers one side, veg the other and a car in the middle. I am so looking forward to the day we can move into a house with a bigger garden.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
For the past few years I've grown Burpless Tasty Green, they are self fertile and produce more than 2 people can eat from 2 plants. We have made cucumber relish from Doves recipe and given loads away.
I think the trick is to get one that is female only flowers. Otherwise you need to pinch out the males, which make the fruit bitter.
Our courgettes are producing loads of fruit, but they don't seem to be getting very big. Good thing there are so many and I like them small!