Cucumbers

Daniel has increasingly shown an interest in growing plants. He loved growing things at preschool and then his continued last year in Kindy when they planted and grew corn and cucumbers. He loves watering them and watching them grow. James and I decided to get him a plant box so he could start to grow his own plants. Before we headed to Hervey Bay we chose some seeds - cucumbers and beans - and Daniel decided to plant cucumbers.

Thanks to Mel for watering the cucumbers while we were away, Daniel, and I, were very excited to see they had started to grow. I loved his reaction when she saw them.

Each night we watered the cucumbers until it would drip out the base of the box. Daniel remembered most days but on the ones when he forgot I'd head out and water it for them. Every couple of weeks we also used the liquid fertilizer on the cucumbers too. I had no knowledge of how cucumbers grew but definitely wasn't expecting big vines. We added stakes and cooking twine to hold up the vines so that they wouldn't end up on the ground. 

After a couple of months we noticed small cucumbers starting to grow. So cool!

And within a couple of weeks the cucumbers had grown fully. There were only 3 cucumbers but still, it was very exciting. And Daniel was very excited to see his cucumbers!

We decided to harvest the cucumbers. Daniel did the honours.

He wanted to be the first to taste his cucumber.

He liked it a lot. He then gave the rest of us permission to try some too.

It was very tasty. Because we have lebanese cucumbers most of the time we noticed that the outer skin was quite tough, but it was still very sweet and flavourful.

I'm looking forward to his next crop.