Growing Cucumber

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02 Feb 13 Barbara Mewburn (Australia - temperate climate)
The apple cucumbers have grown with very flat -almost fluted main stems, with many cucumbers on them. (I've never seen anything like it.) They are all dissapointingly bitter. some are growing up the fence, the rest are growing very low to the ground. My husband has watered them every second day overhead. I suspect that they haven't been watered deeply enough. He is reluctant to put in the watering system, he likes watering by hand. Now many of the leaves are rotting in one patch. He has grown cucumbers successfully before. Thankyou, in anticipation.
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09 Feb 13 David Kiefel (Australia - temperate climate)
I have read recently that cucumbers like a deep watering which apparently assists in making them less bitter... seems to be working so far.
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