Growing CUCUMBERS Intensively At Home for Maximum Yield and Plant Health | Step-by-Step Guide
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- Cucumbers are the SECOND most popular garden vegetable for a very good reason! They're fun to grow, produce lots of tasty food, and everyone has a favorite cucumber dish. In today's video, we're going to go through the FULL process from start to finish of growing cucumbers from seed to harvest.
You'll learn how to choose your seeds, get them planted and ready to go in the garden, how to water, feed, and trellis your plants and even how to keep the harvest going strong throughout the summer months. Let's grow some cucumbers together!
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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 ☺️
Very cool! Thanks for sharing - I love growing them back down too =)
@@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! 🧐 ♥️
@@NextdoorHomestead love watching the little tendrils work there magic 🪄
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.
Yay! That's what I am trying
I think this is the best cucumber video i've ever seen.
That's really awesome to hear. Thank you for saying so!
Yes, my rule is they must have at least one garden dog.
Agreed was thinking the exact same! Sorry young plants I will be picking your first flowers until you develop a solid root system!
Our neighbor gave us cucumber seedling 🌱 and we got the best cucumbers now 🥒
He got the packet seeds from Walmart. I thanked him million times.
Oh nice! You might want to ask him what variety it was!
I got cucumber seeds (heirloom) from farmers that saved them for years and it doesn’t have a quang taste like most bought ones taste like
Helpful advice. Thanks.
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'd never heard that term before - thank you for sharing!
Love your videos! Plz keep em comin 💯
I thumb up every video because you took the time to help people out, good job.
Awesome video, thanks 😊
Truly appreciate your excellent teachings
That's awesome - so glad you appreciated it! Hope your cukes do well this year!
Very helpful details! Thank you!
No problem! Thanks for watching^^
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
Why would you have gotten sick?
As someone in the UK, so not the warmest weather ever, cucumbers still grow well, I transplant mine as well and they work great
I appreciate your advice sooo much
I appreciate you saying so!
Thank you very much
Thank you!This has been quite helpful!
Helpful is my goal =)
Thank you for watching!
Very knowledgeable. ❤Thank you!
You're quite welcome! And thank *you* for giving it a watch =)
Thank you for sharing this information with us
You're so welcome and thank you kindly for watching!
Thank You!!!!! Heading Out To My Garden Now. Great Info Thank You Tons For The Videos. Keep Up Your Fabulous Work!
You are so very welcome! Definitely got more videos in the works - so glad they've been helpful for you =)
That’s so true.
Your videos have been immensely helpful. I’m subscribed now
Well that's just awesome. Thanks for joining up =)
Hope you like the future videos too!
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 reading about everyone's different trellis strategies! Such a fun plant, I really can't wait to start some cuke seeds!!!
Excellent video! You taught me about all the issues I have
Well thank you very much! Glad it was helpful and good luck with your cukes this year!
Thanks a lot. I did lean such a lot from this video.
No problem! So glad it was educational^^
they taste wonderful! no wonder they are so popular.
Yeah for real! Love us some cucumbers. Summer needs to hurry up =)
Thank you so much for this amazing video
No problem! Hope it's proving helpful =)
Great video totally follow recommendations
Thank you for saying so! And good luck with your cukes this year^^
Wonderfully informative video!
So glad to hear it! Thanks for saying so =)
great channel, straight to the point and nice voice to listen to
Ah, thank you kindly! So glad you're liking it =)
Great info,thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Another awesome vid. Tks
No problem, thanks for checking it out!
Your passion for gardening is truly inspiring! 🌿🌟
I am so glad you think so!
Thank you! You are a wealth of knowledge. 🙏💎🌱🎶
You're so welcome! Thanks for the kind words^^
so informative thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for checking it out =)
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.
Your videos are really good and packed with useful information. Thank you
Well thank you for saying so! I know this was a dense video - so glad it was useful =)
Very informative
Thank you
You're welcome! Have you already started your cukes for the year?
So much information. Thanks love you.
No problem at all - glad it was informative =)
@@NextdoorHomestead gooooood answer
Tjanks, learning more re: pruning
Awesome! And no problem at all =)
Thank you so much!
You're so welcome! Happy gardening =)
Thanks For The Great information, and Demonstration ❤
You are so welcome!
Great video, just enjoyed first cucumbers of the season in a breakfast salad! Thanks for sharing knowledge, it helps.
Thanks for watching! And for some reason your comment made me want to make some Greek cucumber salad... =)
My first time planting cucumbers so this video was so helpful. New subscriber.
GOOD LUCK! Such a fun endeavor. And I'm so glad to hear it was helpful =)
great instructions
So glad to hear it! Thanks for watching =)
New subscriber here. Great video.
Super informative but simple to understand. And no filler just the good stuff.
Thanks
You're very welcome! So glad to have you join the channel - hope you enjoy the future videos as well =)
Looking forward to using the information provided in this video! I wish you luck with your video presentations.
Thank you! I'm glad it was helpful and I appreciate the well wishes =)
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!
Thank you for a very informative vid. Good information.
You're so welcome! Thanks for checking it out =)
I’m excited to try a double leader this year with some of cukes. Thank you!
You're so welcome! Any fun varieties?
@@NextdoorHomestead I might try it with one of the pickling kinds - excelsior. Our fave is Manny! Growing in a greenhouse up here in Alaska.
This has been really helpful , as growing cucumbers for the first time this year & already have a baby cucumber growing 😁
Yay! So glad it was helpful. I hope your cukes turn out 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!
Glad it was informative! And best of luck with your cukes - keeping them well-watered should make for a bigger harvest =)
Great demo
Thank you!
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
So glad to hear it was informative! And welcome to the channel =)
Good Info, Thanks from Oregon
Thank you for watching! Hope you're getting some sun soon for the cukes =)
I use hardwood mulch to help maintain moisture consistency in the soil. Seems to help .
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.
I agree with some other comments. I've been growing veggies for a long time and this is the best cucumber video I've seen. I have to try to grow vegetables in the desert and I think there is a lot of good new info in here that will help me. I've subscribed to this channel to see more of what he has to say.
Oh wow, thank you for the kind words! We're not in a desert but sure do have hot, dry summers. It's not easy for plants like cucumbers, that's for sure =)
Anyhow, thanks for joining up and I hope you enjoy our future videos too!
😂 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. ❤️
Underrated benefit of the home garden. Carrots are another favorite for my boy
😅My girl wraps her paws around unripe cucumbers 🥒 as though they are her long lost kittens.
Great tips! Your voice is mellow and relaxing, and the music in the background is low, which makes it easy to hear and understand you. Very helpful informative video. Thanks!
Oh good, so glad you liked it and the music wasn't too loud =)
We've gotten lots of feedback about loud music so it's nice to hear we've gotten a bit better at that!
love it good info
So glad to hear that! Appreciate it =)
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! ❤
No problem! And yeah, with cucumbers the variety is just so critical. Totally different than tomatoes.
Good luck =)
how did you make the trellis for the cukes? I see the green fence posts, but what is on top in order to put the pole across? Thank you love this video
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?
Thanks for sharing 🙏
No problem! Hope yours grow well this year =)
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Welcome! Glad you enjoyed 😁
Good hint about taking the first couple of cucumbers off😊
Glad to hear it! I hope your cuke harvest was good this year 😁
@@NextdoorHomestead thank you. I was encouraged to do the same thing with my Young citrus plants
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.
Oh good, I'm so glad you aren't giving up! Most of us have plenty of time left for a round of cucumbers so I think you've got a good shot at it!
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!
This is great video keep up the good work
Thank you =) So glad you enjoyed it - definitely made me want to make more of these in-depth veggie grow guides!
+1 for corinto. Mine has like 8 cucumbers right now where the other variety (Katrina) is half the size with just one or two cucumbers.
Oh good, I'm glad to have some backup on this one. I don't think they're too, too common in home gardens yet. And yeah, the grow SO fast.
Thanks!
Wow! Thanks so much - I'm so hugely pleased this video was helpful enough to warrant this.
Best of luck with your cukes this year! I can't wait to get mine going soon =)
I truly love planting everything a foot apart and in that extra space I'll plant something else something like turnips
That's even better! I don't think I talked about interplanting in this video but it's a cool practice for sure!
Very nice video. Good tip on starting them in small containers. I do the same. If I direct sow, they end up being eaten by the rolly pollies.
I love all the folks chiming in with the same experience! Such a time and resource saving change for us too.
Cheers!
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!
Totally agree - came for the info, stayed for the relaxing voice.
@@nickgaidin right? He could totally have another channel just talking about being stress free and nature and such things!
For pickling....try the H19 variety.
It's on my list for next year! Had a couple folks recommend it highly now 😁
Awesome video
THANK YOU! I really appreciate that =)
LOVE your giant doggie!!! My dogs love to help me garden too!
He was out all morning help me make a new video on raised beds. Such a good boy!
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!
Thank you
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching =)
Great information. I really needed it. Thank you
Glad to help! Hope your cucumbers crush it this year =)
@@NextdoorHomestead Hi, I tried to get the flowers from the cucumber plant to do exactly what you showed on video , but I don’t understand what flowers to use for the female flower! It the ones that are closed complete?
@@lindatavares2027 Heya! The female flowers are the shorter ones with the little baby cucumber fruits visible beneath the flower itself.
You want them to be fully open and formed when you hand pollinate. Usually much easier to do in the early morning - cucurbit flowers tend to close with the heat of the day.
Cheers!
@@NextdoorHomestead thank thank you! Now I understand
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 🙃🌱✨
*and bell pepper :3
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
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 =)
You are so smart
THANK YOU
You are so welcome! Thanks for checking out our videos =)
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE ENCOURAGEMENT
Corinto seeds back ordered till late august
Argh, that's frustrating! Sorry to make an impossible recommendation in that case =(
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
Oh nice! I hope you really enjoy them. We went through a lot of bad cucumber seasons to get to good ones, so keep at it 😁
How do you tell the male from the female bloom?
@@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.
Great vid bro
Thank you sir!
Love your Ridgeback
Ahhh thank you! He's loving life now that it's hot enough to lay in the garden =)
@nextdoor homestead Thank you. This video was very informative. Could you provide a link to the trellis system you used.
No problem at all! Here's our video on it (it's a common system though if you want to see how others do it too):
ruclips.net/video/tRU674-sHR8/видео.html
Really great video, i appreciate all the content. I have read it a few times. I have cucumber in pots and also tomatoes and peppers. This is second year but i hav no fruit on cucumber and peppers . Am not sure wat am doing wrong. I have some tomatoes but they never get red in pot and in the ground. Maybe its the Scottish weather, we don't really get a good summer. I just checked my small 6 inch pot this in my window and i have small cucumber growing whereas outside its nothing. Very odd. Thank you ,i look forward to next video.
Seems like your channel is blowing up🎉 .. it's about time buddy you make great videos.
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 information! Thank you for the info and for being so through! Do you trellis all types of cucumbers? Even those that can be the bush variety?
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 =)
Nice Vlog awesome work better growing tips
Thank you so much! I saw you're growing some malabar - that's on my all time favorites =)
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!
Thanks for another great video! You always make me want to get outside and play in the dirt 😊 You mentioned that you'll throw your succession cucs at the base of the older, established plants. Do you do this in your containers as well?
No problem and thanks for checking it out!!! =)
I don't succession crop in the same way in our containers usually, come to think of it. Great question! The roots tend to be more densely balled up and so it's hard to plant in a large, established seedling. I think it would be fine to do a smaller seedling though =)
In general, we're just a lot more laid back with the container garden as it's a bit of a combo veggie + ornamental mishmash =)
Doing succession pllanting with cukes this year
Nice! We've got a few ages of cukes in the garden. Already getting some! =)
What an absolutely great video. It was so pretty en relaxing to look at, and so super informative. I don't know why I didn't look up gardening tips for cucumbers earlier and just winged it, but your video answered about every single issue I might have ever had while growibg snack cucumbers. I absolutely love that you included shots of you working in your own garden. So chill
So incredibly glad to read this feedback. Thank you for sharing =)
I would probably not plant them alongside a wisteria just on the basis of that plant being unsafe for consumption. Otherwise, cucumbers are definitely something you can companion plant with so long as you can meet both plants' watering requirements. I like to occasionally plant mine next to something tall like a sunflower to use it as a trellis. Otherwise, small annual herbs are a popular choice.
I have dealt with extremely shady gardens as well and have found some level of success with the cucumbers. In most cases, it's about changing your expectations. Some veggies are always better than no veggies =)
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!
@@lorettabenjamin5600 Please, please do! Hot-weather cucumber gardens are a favorite topic of mine ;)
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.
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 🙂
Thanks - good catch! I do need to be more careful differentiating the two =)
And very glad you liked the video!
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!
Ever grown lemon cucumbers? My wife planted some they are doing good. Still young plants only a like 10 inches tall so far.
They're so controversial! Some people love the flavor (and they're amazing growth habits) and others don't care for the taste. I sort of fall in the second camp unfortunately =(
If you like 'em though, what an awesome variety!