As September approaches and the growing season nears an end, the Djerksons are more than satisfied with what’s been coming out of their garden.
For some reason, their garden is producing 20-inch cucumbers.
“Nobody can believe it,” Shirley Djerkson told the News-Optimist last week. “Everybody says they’re zucchinis, but no.”
The plants came from Walmart. Frank Djerkson brushed aside some leaves and showed that small, growing cucumbers are curved rather than straight.
The Djerksons haven’t been growing them any differently than they normally would, except their cucumber patch this year is in the bigger garden in their yard rather than in a smaller patch by their fence.
The big cucumbers don’t taste any different either.
“They’re not bitter when you eat them,” Shirley Djerkson said. “I gave the neighbour a couple and they said they were delicious.”
Djerkson said the plan was to keep some of seeds from the big cucumbers and give some seeds away.
A recent hailstorm damaged some of what was in the garden, but Djerkson said she covered up her big cukes.
The biggest cucumber so far has been 20 inches.
As any farmer will tell you, increased yield comes at a cost.
“Everybody says you’re going to need a gallon jar just for one pickle.”
