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 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 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 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!
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 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!
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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! ❤
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)
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 =)
😂 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. ❤️
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!
@@NextdoorHomestead Yes. You do have a lot of deaf old people watching the videos, so it makes it easy if there aren't a lot of background noises. If need be, I slow down the pace of the video to .75 to make sure that I don't have to rewind often, I am thinking that you are a professor in an agriculture school somewhere. Your presentation is excellent and informative. Thank you.
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.
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 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.
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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!😊
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.
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!
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!
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
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 =)
@@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!
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 =)
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! 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.
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
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
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!
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?
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!!!
I thumb up every video because you took the time to help people out, good job.
Literally is your favorite word and literally you know what your doing
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 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!
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 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!
Apparently pineapple and coriander like sandy soil not to mention coconuts.
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
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Truly appreciate your excellent teachings
That's awesome - so glad you appreciated it! Hope your cukes do well this year!
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 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.
Hahaha yes! I'm here for the cucumber love. Going to eat a whole mess of them todaay!
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 =)
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!
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 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... =)
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 =)
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!
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!
Love your videos! Plz keep em comin 💯
they taste wonderful! no wonder they are so popular.
Yeah for real! Love us some cucumbers. Summer needs to hurry up =)
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 =)
I appreciate your advice sooo much
I appreciate you saying so!
Thanks a lot. I did lean such a lot from this video.
No problem! So glad it was educational^^
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!
Great advise. Just did some stringing up and punched off blooms
Hope they produce like crazy for you! We're starting to swim in cukes already.... I love it! =)
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
@@oktayosmanov100 Oh, interesting thanks for sharing! I do wonder if your milder summers contributes to the plant's longevity as well.
Cheers!
@@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! ❤
No problem! And yeah, with cucumbers the variety is just so critical. Totally different than tomatoes.
Good luck =)
Very helpful details! Thank you!
No problem! Thanks for watching^^
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)
For the past few years I have transplanted cucumbers, tomatoes & corn. Mainly because of the weather & critter troubles in zone 6 b.
I also do container gardening & raised boxes.
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 =)
Thank you!This has been quite helpful!
Helpful is my goal =)
Thank you for watching!
😂 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.
+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.
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!
Your passion for gardening is truly inspiring! 🌿🌟
I am so glad you think so!
So much information. Thanks love you.
No problem at all - glad it was informative =)
@@NextdoorHomestead gooooood answer
Thank you for sharing this information with us
You're so welcome and thank you kindly for watching!
Awesome video, thanks 😊
Thank you so much for this amazing video
No problem! Hope it's proving helpful =)
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!
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!
@@NextdoorHomestead Yes. You do have a lot of deaf old people watching the videos, so it makes it easy if there aren't a lot of background noises.
If need be, I slow down the pace of the video to .75 to make sure that I don't have to rewind often,
I am thinking that you are a professor in an agriculture school somewhere.
Your presentation is excellent and informative. Thank you.
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.
Nice! What variety you growing this year?
@@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!
Thank you! You are a wealth of knowledge. 🙏💎🌱🎶
You're so welcome! Thanks for the kind words^^
Very knowledgeable. ❤Thank you!
You're quite welcome! And thank *you* for giving it a watch =)
Great video totally follow recommendations
Thank you for saying so! And good luck with your cukes this year^^
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.
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 =)
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 =)
great channel, straight to the point and nice voice to listen to
Ah, thank you kindly! So glad you're liking it =)
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
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.
That’s so true.
Thanks For The Great information, and Demonstration ❤
You are so welcome!
Thank you very much
Another awesome vid. Tks
No problem, thanks for checking it out!
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!
Helpful advice. Thanks.
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!
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.
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 =)
Wonderfully informative video!
So glad to hear it! Thanks for saying so =)
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 =)
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’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!
@@NextdoorHomestead Got it! Thank you!
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.
If you're getting lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers your first year, you're doing GREAT! Keep at it =)
@@NextdoorHomestead thank you. I was really excited to see everything looking so great
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!
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!😊
excellent cuke growing video. tyvm!!
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.
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!
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!
Tjanks, learning more re: pruning
Awesome! And no problem at all =)
Hi, thank you for your detailed video on cucumber! I'm looking forward to watching all your other videos.. 1 down loads to go 😂
I hope they proved useful!
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
Not horrible at all! It's amazing when it all just works out =)
I wish our cukes were that happy without babying!
Thank you so much!
You're so welcome! Happy gardening =)
For pickling....try the H19 variety.
It's on my list for next year! Had a couple folks recommend it highly now 😁
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 =)
Very informative
Thank you
You're welcome! Have you already started your cukes for the year?
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!
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Welcome! Glad you enjoyed 😁
Thank you for a very informative vid. Good information.
You're so welcome! Thanks for checking it out =)
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
Great video! Really like your trellis. I can see how you did the supports, but not sure what you used for the crosspieces
Thank you! This should help: ruclips.net/video/tRU674-sHR8/видео.html
Your voice is so very relaxing
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 =)
Doing succession pllanting with cukes this year
Nice! We've got a few ages of cukes in the garden. Already getting some! =)
Awesome video, the best cucumber video I have found so far. May I ask, how often do we need to sprinkle fertiliser on the soil? ~Gen 🌸
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!
I did cucumber in a pot and omg its growing non stop I don't even have place anymore to attach and help the growing xD
Haha I love it! Out of control growth is fun in its own way =)
@@NextdoorHomestead its so out of control that it had taken for hostage my tomatos xD
@@airmedic0072 Ahhhh, that's less fun! Hope you get it under wraps =)
so informative thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for checking it out =)
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!
Great info,thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful information. Thank you. 😁
Absolutely my pleasure!
Good Info, Thanks from Oregon
Thank you for watching! Hope you're getting some sun soon for the cukes =)
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.