June 5th, 2009 by Rich

This week has been an important week, we harvested and ate our first two cucumbers of the year! They are a variety called Cucino and are described as lunchbox cucumbers due to them being only two to three inches long. The good thing is that they are not full of seeds and water so you get a real shot of flavour from them.  I would recomend this variety as hopefully it will also mean we don’t end up with a cucumber glut like normal (that will happen with the other variety – marketmore we have growing!)My only gripe about the cucino is that the seeds were normal price (£1.50 -£2) but the packet stated average contents 5 seeds, we got 3 thats a 40% discrepency! Fortunately what we did get all germinated so not as bad as it could be.