Wish I could get a cucumber this year. Since mine started flowering we have had three to five ninety degree days every week. I did pick my first tomato today.😊
💥Luke the numerous educational vids are "much appreciated". The newly incorporated quips are a blast! ❤😂 Please consider keeping the comical zings as part of your new format. It was a risk - a risk that adds liveliness, and simply works for you, Luke 😎🤣
You are my go to guy for all of my gardening tips! I retired from my job 2 years ago and have been investing my summers in my yard and garden. I’m learning so much from you! Thank you!!
This was such a an informative and hilarious video. 😂 I love all of your "as bitter as..." comparisons! I once missed a cucumber that got mature enough to save seed, and I decided to taste it, not expecting much. It was surprisingly tangy and melon like. Baby Persian was the variety.
Years ago I had grown cantaloupe here in mi it looked beautiful and couldn’t wait to try it finally It was ripe and oh so bitter😭. Did a search and found epsom salt is a sweetener of melons. Watered mine with a tablespoon per gallon no more bitterness also worked on my sisters cucumbers cheap and very effective. Hope you give it a try. Really enjoy your channel Luke good to have someone in your same zone and climate.
Thank u for this very thorough explanation. No one broke it down like this. I started getting bitter ones, yellowing so early on the vine, but wasn't big in size. This alarmed me. But like u said, it was 2 heatwave weeks. I was watering more and more as the heat came, but the lack of shade for the ones vining up the trellis, caused them to die. Smh. Now since the temp dropped to the 80s and rained every other day, I got big Boston pickling cucumber that aren't even yellow and not bitter. 😮it was such a contrast that I had to come online to see where I'm messing up. At 1st I thought it was nutrient problem, but clearly not because only after the drop in temp with the same feeding and extra water made great cucumbers. 😂just when u think u know, u don't. LOL, the love of gardening.
If you cut the ends, swap the end pieces and rub in a circular motion a milky white substance will appear. Rinse repeat. Ever since I started doing this I haven't had a bitter cuke. In fact yesterday I had a real prickly one and it wasn't bitter. Worth a try
I live in a "split season" southern climate in Virginia. Honestly, I think I live as far north as you can get and still split your seasons. I have 2 varieties a few tricks I use to grow cucumbers all spring summer and fall without bitterness. I grow Silver Slicer and Alpha Beit on a partially shaded trellis. It only gets sun for about 4 hours in the late morning and that is plenty of sunlight because we have such humid swampy summers. I have a rotation that starts in mid-spring when I plant out my traditional varieties (Boston, National) and I leave gaps between the plants which are filled in late spring with the heat tolerant Silvers and AB's... pulling out the spring crop before they start crying for help. Then they get me through the summer and then come mid-august I switch back to Nationals and Boston. Or... if I have enough pickles I will try for a fall run of Cantaloupe or butternut on the trellis. Because I am in a 7b/8... and I don't get my first frost until late October to early November, I still have time for early varieties of squash and melons. Last year I did a late plant out of Crimson Sweet Watermelon but the chickens got loose.
Great info, thank you so much! I'm in TN with 90+ degrees for the last 6 weeks and hardly any rain. Raised bed Cucumbers are stunted and deformed. Water regularly but nothing seems to help. Disappointing for sure.
I have been researching and asking about this issue for the past two months. My cucumbers tasted so wonderful this spring, but for the past month seemed to be B I T T E R. Now I know why - thank you, thank you, thank you for your knowledge. I am in zone 7b/8a in MidWest hot/dry Texas.
So, the last 2 or 3 nights we had huge rain, tonight and tomorrow night forecast as well (sw Michigan). Is that simply too much water? Also yesterday i was sick and couldn't go out to the garden. In that time, two pickling cukes and a crookneck squash got bigger than i would have liked. The other day they were fine, still very small. But inside of 48 hours, they grew exponentially! Crazy.
Did you have alot of lightning? I always notice huge growth afterwards. Read a interesting article on the remnants of the hurricane when we got all that rain. It basically said the rain from the system was different. It came from Africa through the Atlantic, through the gulf all the way to Michigan! It may be like miracle grow. I think the article was from MLive ? Interesting. Stay safe tonight hear more storms 🙏
My great grandpa always believed you needed to harvest anything first thing in the morning. Something to do with the heat of the day. Apparently, it is very important for herbs
Unbelievable that you are not getting bit by mosquitoes. There’s no way I could be in the garden without full coverage right now. Sometimes it’s just the ends that are bitter. Learned a lesson to taste test before adding to recipes. Thx for all the cuke tips.
We have to water our plants every day. We wait 2 days they would be cooked. 105° and 6% humidity. But wow do they produce. I plant in April and don't get cucumbers until end of july.
After I started experimenting with other cucumber varieties I have quit growing most green cucumbers. I just didn't like them anymore because they are biter. My favorite are the white mild tasting dragonball cucumbers. They are never bitter..sweeter cucumber. I think Im a picky veggie grower and want to experience something new.
I loved this video and found it really helpful but I wish you would change your settings so we could save these videos. I won't remember this next year.
Great video, Luke! Question... I'm growing English cucs for the first time this year. First picking, my hubby thought they tasted "musty". I didn't notice until he said something. They look great though. Did I pick them too early?
That bitter soap you speak of must be “Lifebuoy”- the punishment of choice by Ralphie’s mom in the movie A Christmas Story when Ralphie said “Ohhhh F*dge” 😂
You never fail to deliver new material👍🌱 Personally, owed to the passage of time, and the number of videos, it boggles my tiny brain how you come up with fresh content🤤 Now, get your best suit readied for the day Kevin Jonas takes you to court😉😂
I have cucumbers that look small like there baby's but have yellow on top and I'm new with growing them not knowing if it is because to much rain or if I'm having problems with pill bugs like what killed my pepper plants
YES!!! That's exactly her name (Mary Margaret Schimweg) so many people have recommended highly about her😊 and am just starting with her Brisbane Australia🇭🇲
Since cucumbers need a lot of water, are they prime candidate for hydroponic growing? I have been considering setting up a hydroponic system. Can you suggest other plants that could thrive in this for of growing? Thank you.
Man just out there manhandling cucumber leaves and stems without any worries in the world. My hands and arms are itching right now just thinking about it! (Also thank you for this video! My cucumber is kind of on its last legs, and at this point they keep growing on the ground and pill bugs get to half of them. But I think I might try a real baby one just to experience it!)
Diplomacy seems to have exited 'video world'. I freely shared a terrific baked cucumber recipe and it got deleted by Mr. Marion or by RU-vid. If I was a video host, I'd give the 'comment' contributor a chance to delete it voluntarily after explaining what was considered inappropriate or offensive. At least the, it would be less likely that a repeat of the 'offense' would occur.
Someone please help me! For some reason my cucumbers are only getting about an inch and a half long turning soft and brown and then that's it. I keep picking them off and it's just repeating the process. 🤦♀️🤷♀️🥺
ThE 6th REASON your cucumbers are bitter is that you aren't growing a burpless variety. Choose burpless variaties if you want mild sweeter tasting cucumbers with thinner skins and fewer seeds. That is what I do.
