Your Cucumbers Will LOVE You For This: 5 Things To Do NOW!

To raise cucumbers, my grandfather at summers end would dig a trench 12” deep and 12’ in length with an East West alignment...Next step, clean out the henhouse and place the findings, feathers and all in the trench, add Lotta water and refill the trench...next step, install a fence post at each end of the trench, apply chicken wire to the posts. Never a bitter cuke, always plenty for family and neighbors, there would be enough pickling cuks for 12 jars of grandmas garlic dills, a years supply.

I find male flowers on cucumbers. Pick them off and tear away the pedals. Take the rest of the male flower (which reminds me of a male appendage) and twirl it in the base of the female flower. I have a very high success rate using this method. I do a LOT of self pollination due to the lack of bees. Also use this method on all squash plants also.

I plant my cucumber at the end of my sunflower rows. I then help guide my cucumber vine to grab a hold of the sunflower stalks. My vines are a sight to see, as they spread down the sunflower rows about two to four feet off the ground in a sprawling manner as though they were crawling on the ground. They are very easy to "prune”, as I just guide offshoot vines to grab on to a new sunflower stalk, or at a higher/lower point on a stalk from the original main vine. My sunflowers grow 6-9' tall, so there is no competition between the cucumber vine and sunflower leaves either.

If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 5 Tips For Growing Cucumber Plants After Planting 0:38 Tip #1: When To Transplant Cucumbers 2:34 Tip #2: Mulching Cucumbers 4:30 Tip #3: Growing Cucumbers Vertically 6:10 Tip #4: Growing Parthenocarpic Cucumbers 12:19 Tip #5: Succession Planting Cucumbers 14:54 Bonus Cucumber Tip 16:43 Adventures With Dal

I have noticed very few Utuber Garden shows rarely mention soil temperatures. After 50 years of gardening I have learned to plant once the soil temp of a minimum of 48-50 F is perfect for planting cucumbers, tomatoes and vegetables with the exception of leafy greens.

I love watching you guys. I am soon to be 82 and I do a lot of canning but my strength is not what it use to be. I have been looking at the harvest Right Freeze dryer for awhile. My husband passed away last May so finances have gone down tremendously but by next year I hopefully will have money enough to buy one. I have learned a lot from you folks. Sure would Like to win the freezer this year as garden is coming in already. God Bless Marge Bickley

I enjoyed this video. This needs to be taught in schools. Some sort of program to give kids seeds and such.

I learned more in this short video than a lifetime experimenting with gardening. Your style and presentation made it w day to watch. Great job!

Cuernavaca, Mexico is where you want to plant yourself, the City of Eternal Spring. Aztec emperors made their homes there and the Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes made it his residence there in 1535 after conquering the Aztec Empire. I stayed there for about a month in summer of 1992 and it was wonderful.

Guatemala is nicknamed the Land of Eternal Spring.. and it's cheap to live there. It's my second home!

Best part about the 5th tip is that IT IS NOT TOO LATE for me to sew some cucumbers and zucchinis this year. 😁 My tiny garden has been lying fallow for years but I half heartedly planted a couple of tomato plants this year and the little golden sun tomatoes reminded me of how great it is to pick fresh produce! Now I also understand why I was never able to keep those darn cucumbers alive for long and everything else in the garden tended to go downhill after they started to die (actually one of the reasons I gave up on the whole thing years back). Thank you, that definitely earned you a subscriber!

I just bought some cucumber plants and seeds today. The algorithm brought up your video . Exactly what I needed to know

I check my plants daily for new blooms. I stick my finger in the center of each of them. It really helps to pollinate them ☺️

This is my first true gardening season in SE NC and I'm relieved I found your channel before starting my garden this year. You've been a great resource for what to do or not do but even if I wasn't living in NC, you do a great job explaining things for anyone. Thank you!

YOU ARE AWESOME!!! I learned more from you in 16 minutes than I’ve learned from all others combined! Thank you so much. I’m in North Myrtle Beach and have scant bees and abundant fungus! Doing everything possible to pollinate my tomatoes, zucchini and now cucumbers, surrounding my garden with flowers, etc. Thanks again…you are so helpful!!!

Thank you! I have been growing cucumbers for years, but still learned new things from you!

This is one of the most helpful garden videos I have ever seen. Thank you!

Thank you for this vid it's been a massive help to me,I'm a self taught self employed gardener in my local area,I'm dyslexic so struggle reading most times,this break down helped me loads,I do research on plants and mediums daily it takes me about 20× longer then most to learn the simplest things when reading this vid got straight to the point awsome work growmie thank you 👍

Awesome, vid. All the questions on one , quick informational, instructional detail. Love this channel. Thanks!💪🏻

China Jade is good, but Jibiai Sshimoshirazu beats it all day long. No spines, sweeter and even fewer seeds. From the same supplier Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, you show the packages at 12:49. Instead of strings for trellising, use cattle panels. Strings are subject to weather, wind specifically, cattle panels are stable.