GROWING LEMON CUCUMBER

this small and round lemon cucumber just looks like lemon but tastes just like a mild cucumber so the lemon cucumbers is one variety I was really fascinated It actually looks like lemon and that's about it there's no other resemblance to lemon at all for this cucumber and this is one cucumber variety that grows very well in slightly colder weather and although July August and September are relatively warm months here in Southern California in your zone it might be just a little cooler or might be just trying to get a little cooler after the end of summer so this cucumber variety is a great variety to grow during these months now pruning your cucumber plant is a nice way to keep the plant clean and free from some diseases as far as you can so what I recommend is that you remove all diseased leaves from around the plant especially towards the bottom of the plant and that will ensure that your cucumber plants stays pretty much disease free to a large extent remember that the diseases that a cucumber plant can get really varies on the type of cucumber you're growing and within about 45 days of planting you can see that the cucumber fruit has emerged and this is a pretty young fruit we'll wait for it to ripen now one of the problems I noticed while growing this cucumber variety was that it is very very prone to fungal diseases as you can see here this plant has a lot of fungal diseases like Rust and powdery mildew and yes you can use fungicides like neem oil or you can use milk to counter powdery mildew you can use a sulfur spray you can use a copper spray I actually don't like to use any fungicide on my plans unless there is a really big problem so let's go ahead and harvest some of our cucumbers and as you can see this is a pretty spiny cucumber but don't worry once you harvest this cucumber and you remove it from the plant you can easily remove the spines and wash the cucumber and it's nice and shiny now although I mentioned that this plant is susceptible to a lot of diseases as you can see from the leaves of this plant it doesn't really affect the fruit production this is a very prolific producer. It produces lot of cucumbers and I was able to harvest cucumbers right throughout the growing season I harvested a lot of cucumbers from this plant so definitely a very productive cucumber especially considering the small area that we are growing the cucumber plant in and the diseases didn't really seem to matter and I'm growing these cucumbers in a small container and I've used a small trellis for it to climb from about five or six feet high however if you use a better trellis you're gonna get a lot more cucumbers from this plant so as usual we will be doing the cut open test so lets slice this cucumber open as you can see few seeds and remember this is a ripe cucumber now if you like to eat your cucumbers raw then I would recommend that you harvest it a little earlier you will get seeds that are less small and the cucumber is more pleasant to eat So as you can see here these cucumbers are nicely washed and kept and you can harvest a lot of cucumbers from this plant now let's look at harvesting some cucumbers that are not ripe these cucumbers are green in color and if you like to eat your cucumber raw I would highly recommend that you harvest the cucumber at this stage they are a lot more crispy they are a lot more crunchy and they will have less seeds at the stage so there we have it that was the lemon cucumber reviewed and please do not be scared to grow this cucumber variety although it has the name of lemon cucumber it just looks like a lemon it tastes absolutely delicious it tastes like a nice mild cucumber and you will love to grow this plant I'll see you again soon happy gardening