I have a compost pile in the yard where we throw kitchen scraps and anything I prune or pull from the garden at the end of the summer. Least year my cucumber crop was crazy, like had a hard time giving it all away crazy, so I ended up put like 15 in the compost pile at the end of the summer.
We took that compost this year and put it on one of my garden beds and because the compost pile does not get hot enough to kill seeds, a ton of stuff started to sprout including a couple volunteer cucumber plants. So instead of buying plants, I just let it go to see what would happen and thinned when I needed to. So far the chaos garden is in full swing, but I ended up with this really weird cucumber plant producing white cucumbers.
The leaves of the vine look really similar to normal cucumbers, but the vine itself is slow growing and is already producing cucumbers where my other plants are still weeks away.
They taste really good kind of a mild cucumber flavor with no bitterness at all. And so far every cucumber on the vine has been white.
The plant gets lots of sun and the whole bed was filled with my compost, so it’s got lots of nutrients. What do you think the chances are I’ve created my own genetic variety?
Photo 1- cucumbers straight off the vine (I picked the little one cause I was like WTF lol)
Photo 2- cucumber innards
Photo 3- current state of the chaos garden. About 90% of the plants here are volunteers.
Photo 4- garden buddy bonus
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Where did you get your seeds for photo 4?
Did you ever have seeds for white wonder cucumbers or silver slicers?
The cucumbers didn’t get enough sun. Sometimes when they are really really shaded from thick leaf coverage of the plant they end up like this.
Silver slicer is my favorite snacking cucumber I’ve ever grown
Looks like the silver slivers I grew last year and the taste description is similar to how I’d describe them.