I had somebody tell me to try growing cucumbers in a tomato cage! It was the best decision ever! The tendril connected, and when it got taller than the cage, it climbed downward and around it was so neat to watch, and the yield was amazing! And I’ll always grow cucumbers with tomato cages now ☺️
@@NextdoorHomestead it’s so awesome! I’m wondering if I should do it with my squash? That’s the only thing new I’m adding for spring time is some summer squash and I’m really really really considering trying a tomato cage! 🧐 ♥️
I've been doing some research, many call it the umbrella method. I bet it was fun to watch it grow, I can't wait til mine starts to climb up the twine.
I planted mine in a pot indoors to start. I was told this helps big seeds germinate I snipped very little of the point off the seed before placing in the soil all of my seeds germinated!
I never thought to fry cucumber then I did with tomato and a high fat (23%) minced beef WOW the cucumber was the star of the show! This veg is arguably one of the best there is just because it's so low on calories but in terms of its vitamins and minerals it packs a punch. A lot of people turn their nose up at "salad stuff" and especially cucumber but it has great health benefits and once you start eating it every day you sort of start craving it. When its fried with tomato and the tomato juices permeate into the cucumber it's indescribable.
I tried a little experiment when I grew my cucumbers last summer. I put some in a pot with soil, and some in straight up mulch next to my garage. Both grew great Cucumbers, and this was my first time gardening. I also didn’t even get sick
I grow my cucumbers on a 6-foot ladder they cover it completely they grow great so thanks again for the video I'm going to start my seeds and get ready for cucumbers
I love the longer videos because I listen to them through ear buds while I do my gardening chores (which some days is about 10 hours straight 😅). I have one spacemaster 80 I grew from seed in a bag, thought it was supposed to only get a few feet... but this thing just keeps getting longer and longer. Unfortunately, all the female flowers end up turning black and falling off, even though I've tried hand pollinating many times. I'm afraid it just might be too hot and humid/sticky out. Same for my tomatoes😢. Lots of chilis though! (Except my capsicum pub. seedlings...not sure what I'm doing wrong but they're still tiny)
ME TOO! Haha you are only the second person in this channel's history to mention that's how they watch gardening videos but I'm all about it. Spacemaster seems like a reasonable choice for the hot weather, sorry it's not panning out =/ Sometimes the heat just wins (like today in my garden...) If you're hand-pollinating and they are still not setting fruit, it's likely a stress related issue. Heat / humidity can certainly do it as can lack of water or poor nutrient uptake. Good luck!
Today we got some nice straight down rain with a little thunder. My mother texted me because it made her remember what an old co-worker used to say. She texted, "Nice pickle showers!" 😊
I always enjoy your content. It is filled with great information and easy to follow. Your voice is so relaxing as well. Gardening can be stressful and you are taking the stress away. ( you should do relaxation videos too!) thanks for another great video and reccomendations
Wow, this is such a nice thing to say! Sometimes I enjoy making videos that are a little bit more low key like this one as well =) And I'm so glad it was informational!
Thank you for the tomato pruning and this cucumber vid! When my sister and I were little my mom used to have a huge salsa garden! Now my husband and I got our first house we started a garden (and my sister moved back home and started a garden back where the old one used to be ha). We successfully grew tomatoes, potatoes, and carrots on the patio of our apartment, so this year we are growing: Tomatoes (Roma, Cherry, Rutgers, Jay Star), zucchini, cucumbers, potatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon, carrots, and lots of herbs. Going well so far but I def wanna to prune and it’s good to know cukes need extra water 🙃🌱✨
Oh wow, that is such a lovely mix. Especially for your second year you should be super proud. Those are some of my favorite veg to grow - and I just checked on our bell peppers and they're starting to fruit! Good luck with your garden this year =)
This is my second year too. The previous year I wanted to give up,it was terrible weather, too much r aim,almost no sunshine at the beginning,then I learned to take care of my garden. late night looking for snails and remove them, and I created a successful mix to spray on the leaves. Superhot chilli,garlic and onions, boil,drain,add 4x more water and ready to keep the nasty beasts away.or grounded chilli to bottom of main stem. I grew tomatoes(beef heart shape,drop shape, twocoloured red green with yellow stripes(this one is a bit bitter-sweet),large pink fleahy ones,and some normal medium sized ones), peppers(pepperoni,small amd large chillis,small drop shape chillis,long curly ones,green large one for filling,and so on,names not remembered.)i had coliflowers,broccolis,and white cabbages. This year i have tomatoes(cherry,beefheart,flesh,medium size,roma and one more),peppers(large green for fillimg,medium long green,medium long red,curly,medium yellow, hot chilli,very hot habanero and some seeds left from last year,but dont know which cause my wife mixed up them.ha.and i have coliflowers again,and some pumpkin,but that one is a random too.just popped out of the soil! haha
Thank you for all your tips. I grow lots of vegetables and I have never had any luck with cucumbers. I had pretty much given up. Even though it’s late in the season, I think I will try because of all your tips. Thank you.
Enjoyed your video. I grew beit alpha and it was such a delightful fresh burpless cucumber. Not great for pickling, but it is a good producer and mild tasting. So planting that for eating and boston pickling for canning. Appreciate all you do! Blesssings!
Beit alphas are awesome! There's a lot of different varieties within the beit alpha group these days too if it's working out for you. Best of luck with your cukes this year =)
@NextdoorHomestead hope you have a great growing season too! Gonna plant my next crop of cukes in a week to stagger them. Thanks for the encouragement! I just love growing. It blesses my soul and gives me great peace. Bless you!
😂 my little (enormous) boy LOVES cucumbers, lettuce fresh green beans. Anything crunchy. I die watching him hold a Cucumber with his paws and loving life. ❤️
I planted cucumbers for the first time in my garden at first I planted just 3 pickling cucumber plants it was slow at first but now it’s towards the end of the season the plant’s are loaded. Next year I will plant so many more they were delicious.
I loved the information about pruning the plant and removing the suckers! This now will change the way I care for my cucumbers. I also didn't know they love water! I will also be growing my cucumbers going up from now on!
Your channel is so chill. Cucumbers are another thing I don't personally care for, but the wife likes them so I grow them. They're quite pretty plants too.
Haha this comment hits home. I like cukes a lot but really I grow them for my wife too who LOVES them fresh from the garden. Plus, yeah they're so cool looking - especially early summer here before the summer fries 'em =)
Omg you've saved my gardening life--or my cucumbers' lives, really. I planted five containers of cucumbers and they all got eaten and I was wondering what on earth to do because they supposedly don't transplant well. Well, looks like I'm going to start some cucumbers in my basement today after work. Thank you for the video!!
I’ve learned that gardeners are super helpful but also tend to follow traditions that may not be based in facts. You’ve got plenty of time to start cucumbers they do well started indoors. Good luck!
For us - and I don't know if this is just us - any seedling in the squash family is the first to get ruined. So we start all our cukes, zucchinis, melons, pumpkins, etc. in pots now. At least if its a seed I don't want to waste =)
All my plants - I use tree containers (20+ gallons). Little leaf varieties produce a crazy amount of cukes, and I've grown them to mid-size w/out bitterness, (but you'll start to get seed development)
New subscriber here bc I learned more from this video than O did from three previous ones where I did not end up subscribing. Looking forward to more vids. Love❤the close-up visual aspect
I am growing in the cooler UK climate. Passandra F1 . Only two plants giving 5-6 mid size cucumbers every day since mid may. No bitter, no male flowers, resistant to powdery mildew. 100% recommended. Needs regular pruning as lots of succers . I keep 3-4 stems per plant and remove the leaves of each node after collection of the fruit from that node so get sun for the rest of the plant and air circulation. Growing in a policarbon green house with raised beds inside.
Interesting, thank you for sharing! I hadn't heard of Passandra before and it seems like a great option for those with access to seeds (seems to be predominately sold in the UK unless I'm mistaken?). Cheers!
@@NextdoorHomestead , something possibly interesting, the regular pruning of the vines and leaves seems to be reviving the plants. And although I have prepared replacement plants, doesn't look like I will be needing them as my first pants which I planted in march are still very vital and keep increasing the productivity. I allowed new suckers to grow at the base of the already bear vine
@@NextdoorHomestead I am not sure. I started growing vegetables only last year first time and I don't have the experience. About passandra F1, I am not sure as well if it is an UK variety. I have very experienced neighbours that gave me one plant last year. This year I ordered seeds online. Your videos are really useful for me. Aubergine growing is a challenge in the UK. And I always collect all the cucumbers on time now and maybe that helps. Thanks.
I really appreciate the visual on the dried-up cucumber leaf. I'm going to assume that's what's happening with mine. This is my first year growing cucumbers and I have tried to variety's and I can definitely see that one seems a lot more straightforward than the other. Thanks for the info! ❤
Did cucumbers this year going through several stages of potting up, always pushing them to the maximum size at each level. I felt like it kept the energy levels high and the level of expansion was crazy. Should harvest my first batch this weekend. With second batch already halfway grown.
@@NextdoorHomestead just some general Bush Champion variety, will probably try some different ones next season. The garden is growing daily! Thanks for all the help for us home gardeners!
Great video! I really learned a few things, thank you! My first year growing the cucumbers were horrible so I didn’t plant them again until last year but your video gave me a lot of info. I have the J.S.S Corinto variety this year
@@jasonwebb5652 a tiny baby cucumber grows out of the stem and the female flower comes out of the end of the baby cucumber. the male flowers grow straight out of the stem. can't miss it once you see it.
I grew them in the tunnel last year and it was too hot - also they were prickly and bitter - everyone hated them - they were Marketmore; probably the soil and heat. Outside next year! I pot everything because it works better for my garden with the light soil. Like it!
Oh yeah we've been there with our cucumbers! I'm not a big fan (personally) of the classic "homestead" cucumbers anymore for that reason - too much tendency to go bitter in my hot climate.
My Persian cucumber vine about 3-4 feet long, gone over night. Caterpillar (?) nimbled all the leaves. Same thing happened to my 3 feet tall tomato plants! Bought a bottle of Neem Oil spray to protect my tarragon, thyme, and green onion veggies.
0_o. Wow, that sounds super frustrating. Ours are right next to a hedge full of birds. They steal my berries sometimes but do keep the bugs down too - all a balance I suppose. Hope the neem works out for you!
I had to delay planting cucumbers until late July in my raised bed because my snow peas kept producing and wouldn’t die. I kept the nodules in the ground and planted Beit Alpha and China Jade varieties direct sown and they have been great ! I am sold on those varieties. I planted purple green beans as a companion plant and they have been great as well. Next year I might try to train them I usually let them go wild on cattle panel.
Those are two super solid varieties. And I know the struggle with replacing crops - I'm sitting here with a bunch of unripe pumpkins I want to rip out already to grow my autumn leafy greens!
Great video dude. I saw that it was 18 minutes, and thought twice, but you made it worth it. Very good. Also, at one point I wasn't looking at the screen, and I 100% thought I was watching Epic Gardening for a sec 😅 Your voices and cadence are very similar. Can only be a compliment and a good thing though. May you also reach that kind of following. Cheers from Cornwall, England's foot.
Hahaha I would not blame anyone for not clicking an 18 minute gardening tutorial. Just felt like making this one as comprehensive as I knew how I guess =). Glad you ended up liking it! Cheers!
Some of the things that I think need to be mentioned when we talk about the newer varieties that are bred to be easier to grow. 1. The cost. cucumber seeds that are gynoecious, parthenocarpic and disease resistant are much more expensive than the standard basic varieties. (some are $1+ PER SEED expensive) 2. The seeds cannot be saved because these varieties tend to be seedless. So the seeds will always have to be repurchased once the original set have been used. (Clone pruned suckers maybe?? that would still only work for a growing season...) Once as a gardener the prospect of healthier plants that have less disease pressure and a potentially more bountiful harvest, brings more pleasure than pain of seed cost and need to regularly re-buy seeds. Then those varieties are a great choice and happy Gardening!
Yep totally! Cost breakdown comments are my favorite kind btw 😁 I still advocate for cheap seeds wherever possible, but not so much with cukes anymore. If you eat (and buy) a lot of them, the economics of massively increasing your output starts to make a lot of sense. I can't imagine most families go through as many cucumbers as mine though 😜
@@NextdoorHomestead in terms of the standalone dollars saved from months of not having to buy fresh Cucumbers vs the cost of the seeds. In my opinion a definite win! And if you ever wonder if your videos make a difference or help ... they do! ill keep you updated on how my ''Qwerty'', "Gershwin" and "Diva" Cucumbers do in my hot and dry season Garden! Thanks for making awesome relatable and actionable content!
We are still learning. In fact, this is my first year really planting. We got a few cucumbers so far but we also have a lot of tomatoes, lettuce but I love the cucumbers.
I planted them in the long container added good ol sandy Florida soil and miracle grow and it loves it and makes lots of fruit and that’s it. Maybe i just got lucky and the seeds were sitting in the bag in my toasty garage for few years 😮 also no fancy trellis just some long sticks that fell of my camphor tree. I know horrible 😂. Will see how they taste
Thank you! The two videos before this one seemed to resonate with folks which was pretty fun =) Seems like we're back to normal now but good times while it lasts. Also whenever you comment and I see your videos I feel the need to get back to vermicomposting more seriously. I've always said it's my favorite form of composting and the best for beginners but I haven't been giving my bin enough love this year.
Great video! Not sure why everyone seems to say you can't bury them stem of cucumbers though. They're able to root from the stem when in contact with soil, like many other naturally sprawling plants. It's also fairly easy to clone your cucumber plants by allowing cuttings to root in soil or water.
I'm certainly willing to change my mind! But I can share why that's my position - I just haven't seen any research indicating that burying the stem deeply improves health or production in cucumbers. So in the absence, I recommend against it as there's always the potential for rot issues with soil on the stem.
I am so glad you shared. My daughter has one plant, and her dogs damaged it. She covered it with soil and asked if it would grow new roots, I said I would try to find out.
Yeah last year my dog got zoomies around my plants and a vine snapped off. I put it in a shot glass with water for a few days out of curiosity and it developed roots. I planted it out about a week later and it did well! I managed to get cukes from it before the cold came so it's absolutely possible
@@BrownEyedGirl14 thank you! My daughter and her husband have 4 energetic doggos, who have presented a bit of a challenge! They are young and medium to low earners, so every insult to their garden is real!
I always put my seed on its side it stops them from rotting also in moist soil and pop them in my airing cupboard having covered and sealed in a plastic bag, look at them every day because they root really quick just a few days sometimes two days!😊
Thanks! One of the best videos on cucumbers. I’ll try the Corinth next year. It might pay to go with hybrids or more selective varieties with cucumbers as opposed to tomatoes - my sudduth brandywine are killing it as well as anything else this year!
I personally find it well worth experimenting with hybrid cuke varieties (and until recently I was a mostly heirloom guy). Especially if you have a tough climate for them. Best of luck and thank you very much for the kind words!
I’m so glad the algorithm led me to your channel today! This was a really helpful video! I do have 1 question. How do I differentiate between male and female flowers? Thank you for the content!
Well thank you very much - glad you enjoyed this one! The easiest way to tell is the female flowers will be shorter and stockier and - most importantly - have a small, immature fruit at their base. Best of luck!
Cucumbers actually do get advantageous roots, like tomatoes do... So you do want to bury them as deep as you can for more of a root ball. Thank you for the other info, I liked your comment about shade area planting.
No problem! Thank you for watching. They definitely do grow adventitious roots (and I should have been clearer on that - my bad!) but I don't believe there's evidence that inducing those aerial roots is beneficial. Very happy to be wrong, I'm just no aware of any studies on that front so I recommend against it. Do you bury yours deeply? Maybe I need to experiment with it personally!
@@NextdoorHomestead sorry for the delayed response, but anyway: I'm only working on my first year as an active gardener, so my experience has yet to exist. Lol. I have done lots of studying over the last year or 2 in preparation for my first real gardening season. Just can't get enough of it, even after learning, note taking, reading and watching for 100's of hours. I'd have to say bury it a bit deep if you can, you can't go wrong with gaining more roots whenever the option presents itself. Hey, could be a good video experiment for you in the future. Currently mine are past that stage and just now reaching almost 2 ft of growth and flowering finally. They should really take off now I believe. Best of luck to you and yours!
Great vid thanks for sharing. Just a fyi, the first tip you wrote "they can mature without fertilisation" as the heading rather than without being pollinated 🙂
thank you beautfiul man ,I am a first time grower (indoors) and i am sad to say I knew nothing about cucumbers untill i started watching some videos I only had 1 female flower and im sad to say I had no idea I should have hand pollinated her She aborted her fruit that was the only one. They are so TINY!!! any way I did as you specified,and plucked off all the dead flowers all dry to a crisp. I thought I had over watered them. 2 plants died from transporting them . They are growing on a heat resistant pallet that I turned into a planter so I twined it and its taken to the twine nicely growing straight up but the leaves are dying off from the bottom. The only insects I worry about are house flies the growth was rampant later after I added fertilizer. I found a channel that said for hearty cucumber to add a warm fresh milk concoction it was fine untill well I did not know about hand pollinating. i guess I better plant some new seeds. I wish you had some advice or Habaneros I save the seeds from what I buy from the store some are from Mexico and the latest ones are rom Porto Ricco...the first batch would not let go of their seeds and died now i have a new batch they all let go of their seeds but they are so small and are so tiny, In desparation, Ive created a makeshift tent and plugged in my warm heat humidifier. I live up North so its slow going. Thank You for the wonderful video. and the advice soooooo needed.🌞
You are so very welcome! Are the cucumbers perking up and starting to set fruit? To be perfectly honest, I do not recommend using milk. I would like to do some videos about hot and super hot peppers next year - I'm sorry I don't have more on that front right now. I just bought some Caribbean Habanero seeds the other day and am excited to try them out. Cheers!
Great job, just wish I can find a video of someone showing in great detail how to prune the suckers? I'm not sure exactly which ones you should take off, besides the old and damaged ones.
Yeah, such a great tip! I'd really like to get our weed pressure under control and return to using wood chips more - at least in the paths between the rows. It is shocking how much it helps with moisture loss.
So glad it was informative!!! Great question - No, I don't trellis bush cucumbers like this. To some degree, it's going to depend on the specific variety as some of them vine out more than others, but generally I just leave mine be. In transparency, I don't grow bush varieties anywhere near so much =)
Wow, thanks! Been a lot of work to get there. It's basically horrible clay soil that has been amended with *A LOT* of compost and aged manure over the past three years. A lot. Cheers!
Will the seed packets and/or online veggie summary at Johnny's etc mention those early vocabulary words? If we're "watching for these options," I'm hoping these are listed during shopping.
Thank you for such a great lesson on growing cucumbers. I'll check out your video on the different types of cucumbers. I'm in London and it's the beginning of Feb, is it too soon to start some seeds off in a windowsill propagator?
