Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The world's cutest future pickles


I looked outside yesterday was very surprised to find this growing on my Boston Pickling Cucumber already:

Have you ever seen such a tiny cucumber?:

Especially on a plant that isn't even in the ground yet?:

Have I mentioned already how much I love spring?

20 comments:

  1. Ha, this made me laugh. We had peppers on our plants when we put them in the ground.

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  2. Time to get them in the ground!

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  3. That was great...laughed out loud at the pickle in a bag.

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  4. Adorable!

    And you're so far ahead of us! Wow! Baby cukes already! How cool is that?! We're just getting ours planted! Gotta catch up!

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  5. All babies are cute....even baby cucumbers. Yes I am loving spring so much.

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  6. Very nice! I am surprised they weren't in the ground!

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  7. Those cute little cucumbers make lovely Bread and Butter pickles.

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  8. Yep, those little baby cukes are cute all right. Spring really is fun, I agree. Glad you're enjoying it!

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  9. Itty bitty cucumbers. Thats a great sign of Spring.

    I can even see all the little pricklies on it.

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  10. Awww, I hope you have many more babies to go along with it!!!

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  11. I made pickles once. It was fun and they tasted just like pickles. You have inspired me to do it again.

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  12. Wow! And you are bringing me a couple of those starts tomorrow! Can't wait. They are about the cutest babies I've ever seen!

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  13. Spring is so wonderful but it won't quit raining here. Love the yellow blossoms.

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  14. Those are the unfertilized eggs of the plant world. Female flowers make a baby cucumber like that, but if the seeds inside the flower don't get pollinated by a male flower's pollen, the plant will abort the baby. It will shrivel up and fall off rather than waste energy making a seedless cuke for you.

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  15. Very cute! You are way ahead of me in the garden. I just planted my cucumber seeds over the weekend.

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  16. That IS the cutest "littlest" pickle I've ever seen. How fun that'll be in a few months!

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  17. Those are some pretty cute pickles. I'm growing Boston Pickling as well. I can't wait.

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  18. Perfect pickle portraits!!!

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  19. I have heard of boxed wine, but boxed cukes? You west coasters have all the fun!

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  20. I love Spring as much as you do... my favorite time. It's busy, but not the Summer busy-and-scorching-hot busy. Flowers are creating delicious future veggies and fruits. Vines wind around. Sigh. Vikki at www.backyardgrocerygardening.blogspot.com

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