Vines way up the tree,
White Spines piercing my fingers,
Cucumber resists.
Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham
33 thoughts on “Harvest Haiku”
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٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ WHAT A BIG CUCUMBER YOU HAVE THERE…٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
щ（ﾟДﾟщ） Hmmm…did I just sound like little red riding hood? LOL…Fortunately, that big cucumber won’t be jumping over me and swallow me into its tummy…hehhee…
Thank you for sharing this lovely harvest and words…Cheers!! 😀
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What a funny comment you have there! 😉 Thanks for the comment. 🙂 Brenda
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You’re welcome, my friend!
Last but not least…
٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶ WHAT A BIG AND BEAUTIFUL FLOWER YOU HAVE THERE BESIDE YOUR HAIR…٩(͡๏̯͡๏)۶
Cheers!! 😀
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Thanks, yes, that grew in my garden!! It was enormous. With affection, Brenda
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Wow………..Awww……wonderful!
Weekend is coming, my friend!
Do have a wonderful one ahead, always~ Cheers!! 😀
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I was puzzled for a moment, wasn’t sure if it was a cucumber or a cactus plant!! 😀 Have you eaten it yet? It must be wonderful, so much more flavour than the shop bought ones!
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It’s still in my garden confounding me. 🙂
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Lovely Haiku!
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Thanks!
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Love it. Those cucumber spines can draw blood!
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They really showed up, didn’t they?!? I never knew to fear cucumbers before starting my own garden. 🙂
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Do you still really have cucumbers?! Mine were such a failure this year–well, we did get a number of gallons of garlic pickles–before the dreaded beetles came along–but it was ages ago.
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I still have cucumber vines stretching to the heavens, long since disdaining the obelisk I use for them, and climbing the surrounding arbor vitae. They are still flowering, some new ones only and inch long, some gigantic! Literally, they are twice my height. They are awe inspiring. 🙂
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What’s your secret?!
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No idea. Water them a lot maybe? Put fertilizer down in the spring? Give them something to grow onto? All three?
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My goodness! The shades of green and patterning is marvellous Brenda. A giant’s cucumber!!
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You have to climb the tree to get it! Maybe in Jack n the Beanstalk, it was a cucumber vine all along!!
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What a beautiful vegetable you have grown. I’m thinking you have a green thumb!
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My sugar snap peas and sunflowers ended in disaster. I must have a hardworking cucumber fairy with dreams of grandeur. 🙂 Thanks for commenting! Brenda
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Now that’s a harvest to be proud of for sure
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We’re going to need a ladder for the next couple. Good thing we all like cucumbers. 🙂
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Oh I love them so much! Yesterday my daughter realized pickles are cucumbers. She said yuck mom I hate cucumbers. Whatever right? Kids are so silly sometimes 🙂 I totally love them and love your garden produce:)
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Pickles are like cucumbers like wine is grapes. 🙂 Thanks for commenting!
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Yay for pickles and wine!!🙈🙉🙊
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Yeah!
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I feel like a kosher dill right now;)
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Can’t help you there, I’m afraid. The dill and cucumbers in my garden are quite separate. 🙂
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Cucs do have spines and they do not go easily. So true!
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I usually brush them off before I harvest, but I can’t when it is so far above my head. Eek!! 🙂
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Yes the first time I grew them I didn’t know cucs had spines… Ouch
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They do hurt!
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What a cucumber !
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It is literally 2 feet above my head, clinging to the arbor vitae. And there’s one higher, not quite as big. Some of the flowers are double my height, way up the vine. It’s intimidating with those spines. 🙂
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