I have a Japanese cucumber plant and I have cucumber growing. This is my first time vegetable gardening, so I don’t know when to harvest the veggies. The cucumber that is growing looks like a dill pickle. It is about 5 1/2 ” long and just about an inch – inch 1/2 thick. It is a med-dark green color and the flower on the tip looks like it died today. I read online that this type of cucumber can grow very long (not too thick) so don’t know when I should pick it. Should I pick it now that the flower died off?
Also, my nearby zucchini plant has overtaken my garden box. I didn’t know it would grow to the size it grew to, so I planted Japanese Eggplant across from it on the same day as the zucchini was planted. Now the zucchini are growing plentiful and large but the Japanese Eggplant is almost completely hidden underneath the plant and gets very little direct sunlight. It is producing eggplant but they are very small and thin, then they go to mush…..
We can’t even cook with these as they are too small. If we removed the skin we’d be out of veggie!
I have read other people say they ‘stake’ their zucchini. If a zucchini plant is full grown is it too late to stake, or can my hubby still create a small ‘fence’ area to have the zucchini move away from the Japanese eggplant so it can get sunlight?
If anyone knows anything about this I thank you in advance for any information you have to give!

I’m wanting to grow tomatoes, chives, herbs, squash, spinach, asparagus, peas, green beans, onions, garlic, strawberries, bell peppers, potatoes, carrots, corn, and soybeans.

Thanks for your help.

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