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Cucumber
Cucumbers are taking over the garden! On a daily basis, I have to go rescue the peppers from being taken over of the cucumber plants! Cucumbers grow "feelers" which stretch out and reach for anything to help the plant spread. These "feelers" are 7-9 inches long and are straight with a small curl on the end to pull itself farther up and out. In my case, the pepper plants are too close and the "feelers" wrap around the pepper stems and leaves in addition to the ropes we actually gave it to climb. The most interesting part of the cucumber plant growth is that it does not wrap its "feelers" around itself...I assume this is why the entire cucumber plant is rough and almost prickly. This particular cucumber plant grows very large fruit, I wonder if the aggressiveness of the "feelers" is its adaptation to ensure growth...or if the prickly coating of the plant is an adaptation to ensure it doesn't strangle itself!
Cucumber
Cucumbers are taking over the garden! On a daily basis, I have to go rescue the peppers from being taken over of the cucumber plants! Cucumbers grow "feelers" which stretch out and reach for anything to help the plant spread. These "feelers" are 7-9 inches long and are straight with a small curl on the end to pull itself farther up and out. In my case, the pepper plants are too close and the "feelers" wrap around the pepper stems and leaves in addition to the ropes we actually gave it to climb. The most interesting part of the cucumber plant growth is that it does not wrap its "feelers" around itself...I assume this is why the entire cucumber plant is rough and almost prickly. This particular cucumber plant grows very large fruit, I wonder if the aggressiveness of the "feelers" is its adaptation to ensure growth...or if the prickly coating of the plant is an adaptation to ensure it doesn't strangle itself!