Hi Christine, I am starting a lot of veggies and flowers now. I did another sowing of carrots, greens, lettuce, radishes. On the warm season veggies I started cucumbers, the days have been too cold for beans or squash. I am harvesting peas and at the same time I planted chickpeas, they are flowering now and hope to get some harvest.

Cucumber seedlings

Silvia

Would you share with me the variety of cucumbers that you plant? I am in zone 10b and get nice vines/flowers but no fruit pollination. I think the bees don't like the variety I have? (Lemon)

Clara, I like to plant the parthenocarpic cucumbers, the ones I like the best are the thin skin and smooth. I planted this season Iznik, I will probably follow them with some other one that I have now. Katrina, Diva, Sweet Success, Corinto all have done well for me.

Silvia - Have you grown chickpeas before? They are attractive bushy plants but they look different from typical pea or bean vines.

Your planting time is at least a week or so before mine. I'm going to get my cucumbers started tomorrow! I also like to eat the kind of cukes that you have in the photo. I can't believe that you are still harvesting tomatoes. My plants got knocked out by the cold a couple months ago.

Christine

Very good. Parthenocarpic: I will check that out. Thanks for sharing your experience with an amateur!

Christine - The chickpeas are a test in the garden this season, they like cooler weather like the peas, they are more like a little bushes and you can eat fresh mature pods and peas or you can let them dry. They are also different varieties, the one that I have planted is the black. I brought with me at least 5 pounds of dried chickpeas from Europe, cooked them all and have them in the freezer, they are so versatile in cooking. I have at the moment 4 tomato plants they would not stop producing no matter how much I want to take them out, Sweet Treats, Indigo Blueberry, Sungold and Smarty.

Clara - You are welcome and hope that you are successful with your next cucumbers.

Silvia