Japanese Long Cucs. They supposed to get nice a long. Feeling sorry at the moment as I have 4 cucs, one 4" and like a horseshoe that I will need to eat well before its time, and the others are little 1/2 pinkie sized but the flowers are already closed up and dried out so they are probably lost causes. I will try the soft paint brush method. So far, my little garden is quite pitiful but at least I am trying. 8-). I will get beans though. Did those last year in 5 gallon containers and they liked the temps here. The rest, not so good. tj

We have bees buzzing around all our lavendar in the front yard but they seem not to like my garden space near the dog pen and I don't see any bees (other than 1 one day) around my many cucumber flowers.  So, I decided to try hand polinating.  Unlike Zuchinni flowers that are large and Qtips love grabbing the male flower goods to then swipe on femail Zuch flowers, cucumber flowers are fairly small.  Qtip does not really fit in the flower.  So, the 3 small cucs I have I broke off a mail flower for each cucumber and pulled off the leaves.  I then grabbed the middle section and stuck it in the female cucumber flower and swiped it around.  I then left the little male part in the flower. I now have one 4 inch cucumber but it is a horseshoe shape so that tells me it was polinated but not well.  The other 2 cucumbers are rather small still so we will see. Anyway, what is the best way to polinate cucumbers. tj

Thanks for the update. Too bad they would not send you a new pitcher. tj

Thanks for the update. Too bad they would not send you a new pitcher. tj

I need to get something soon. Missing our smoothies. 8-)