2006-08-09 14:05:54 · 7 answers · asked by syrious 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Are you growing them on a trellis or on the ground? Sometimes when the young growing cucumber (or other squash or fruit, for that matter) encounter an obstacle, they take the easy way out and just grow in a way to accommodate the obstacle. It doesn't take much - the blossom end encountering a rock or even just the ground can do it. Usually you get more aesthetically perfect cucumbers when you grow them on a trellis and make sure that they don't encounter anything that diverts their straight growth. But in the end, it's the taste that counts. Since we usually slice cucumbers anyway, it won't make any difference in the end.
(Just a side note - some garden catalogs sell a 2-piece plastic mold that you can put around a developing squash. The squash then takes the form of the mold, which is usually an odd-looking face. I've never done it, since I don't want my veggies to look even remotely human, but it goes to show that certain types of vegetables are easy to coax into different forms.)
2006-08-09 17:53:41 · answer #1 · answered by sonomanona 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
inconsistent watering, watering in the middle of the day, watering too shallow and the roots arent deep and are getting too hot.
Water in the morning with a drip or soaker hose. Be sure you have at least 2 inches of mulch to keep the soil a little cooler and to retain the water. Good luck!
2006-08-09 23:48:45 · answer #2 · answered by hipichick777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually due to soil quality and nourishment. You can stunt a plant's growth with too little water, sunshine and fertilizer in the same manner that you can kill it with too much of everything. Most vine-propugated vegetation will curl - perfect veggies are more apt to be chemically/genetically engineered.
If they taste good, who cares if they curl. Adds more character.
2006-08-09 21:37:21 · answer #3 · answered by Lilith 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's caused by poor pollination or less than ideal weather conditions, ie too hot or too cold.
You might try hand pollinating, but do you really want to tickle each blossom with a paintbrush daily just to get perfect pickles?
2006-08-10 22:23:47 · answer #4 · answered by BobKat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they need something to hook onto like a fence or trellis and its better cause if they are on the ground the snails get them
2006-08-09 23:02:09 · answer #5 · answered by lukynluv 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not exactly sure why, but they aren't the only squash that does that.
2006-08-09 21:09:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lilith is right.
2006-08-09 22:03:19 · answer #7 · answered by jeffrey k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋