Comments on: Cucumbers Galor at my Dad’s Garden

By: My Dad’s Garden in Early July « Nye Noona

My Dad’s Garden in Early July « Nye Noona — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:59:16 +0000

[...] Butterfly, Crape myrtle, Lily Pond, Small Garden, Trellises Garden It has been a while since I last updated my dad’s garden. I took this picture on June 28th, got up extra early before [...]

By: Nye

Nye — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:28:57 +0000

mozemoua, my sisters got to enjoy the cucumbers during their July 4th visit. I have lots of cucumber now, I might try the smoothie.

By: mozemoua

mozemoua — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:36:39 +0000

I’ve yet to visit my parents and their garden! makes me miss them much! My mom brought some of her asian cucumbers and I had some water cucumber smoothie as we called it the other day! It’s most refreshing on a hot summer day!

By: Nye

Nye — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:03:36 +0000

PaNoy, I also need to prune some of my trees. I’ve seen at Biltmore that they train the fruit trees on a wire fence, I need to post that for you to see, it’s real neat and a space saver as well.

By: Nye

Nye — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:00:30 +0000

Cambree, my dad doesn’t pickle them, we’re big eater when it comes to vegetables from his garden so they get gone fast. I had the English cucumber before, they’re extra long and I think they’re hothouse grown because I see them all year round here.

My dad let my second sister plant his garden, he’d have everything ready for her but she has to be the one dropping things in the ground, he seems to think that she has a green thumb and he said that if he planted them himself then they’d not bear any fruit, I don’t know if it’s just a superstition but it has been a tradition for them for many years now, even before my mom passed away, kind of funny I think.

By: Nye

Nye — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:56:19 +0000

Lady0fdarkness, you can probably do a kitchen garden and it’d not need much of a space. I think I could ‘tum’ almost anything, Tum cucumber is also good if you add string beans.

By: Cambree

Cambree — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:55:58 +0000

Cucumbers galore! Will your dad be making pickles with them? My dad used to make pickled cucumbers and peppers too. Wish I had asked him for the recipe.

Btw, have you had Persian and English cucumbers? They are my two favorite kind. Very crisp, skin and all.

I also love zucchini squash. My mom said her plant is not bearing any again this year. I blamed it on the lack of bees, but now I wonder if it’s just a bad seed.

By: PaNoy

PaNoy — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:41:26 +0000

The role of corn looks very healthy. And the squash and zucchini are very nice, I like them lightly boiled for 2-3 minutes over stirfry. Also, I’m not sure if your father knows, but pruning and training the pomegranate will help it bear fruits, prevent disease and live longer…something I will have to do this fall to all my fruit trees. I never thought of it until a friend mentioned it to me and I started reading about it. I guess I was wanting the trees to grow big and fast, but what’s the use when you can’t pick the fruit that’s too high above your head. And training will help with blending the trees in with the landscape.

By: lady0fdarkness

lady0fdarkness — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:30:30 +0000

I’m not a fan of cucumber salad (tum mak tang), but I love cucumbers in salad type dishes like yum salad, Kaopoon Num Jael and garnishing for Laab. I don’t have much of a backyard, so my garden sucks. lol..

Hmm.. but my mom’s backyard is huge, and she has every vegetables including asian vegetables on her farm/garden. I will take pics of her vegetables one day.