One Tough Cukie

A couple of years ago, we planted a burpless cucumber plant we found at Home Depot.  We’d never had good luck with cucumbers at our old house, as they’d always succumbed to a fungus.  We thought we’d try our hands at the new place, and that cucumber went to town.  It grew up a little obelisk and kept us in cucumbers much of the summer.  The fruit it produced was really good, too.

Last year I looked for the same variety and didn’t find it.  This year, after I’d already planted my little garden, I found a pot with 2 little plants at our local hardware store.  I was so happy to find them, and since the obelisk was already occupied by sugar snap peas, I bought a steel trellis for the cucumbers.  Unfortunately, somehow on the ride home, one little plant was broken off.  They were just babies with only cotyledons, so I was sure the broken one was a goner.  That said, I’m not one to give up on a living thing.  I filled a little juice glass with water and covered it with foil and then poked a little hole for the broken top.  I sat it in the window and watched.  For a week, nothing happened; then I noticed it LOOKED like there might be more leaves coming.  When I checked, there were a few wispy roots.  That was about four days ago.  Today, there is indeed another leaf and a good cluster of roots.  I think that little plant has earned the right to join its brother (sister?) in the garden, and that’s where it will be going today.  That’s one tough little cucumber.