How to grow cucumbers?

Cucumbers a bit more demanding than some other vegetables. They like heat. They need a consistent supply of food and they thrive in a potting soil that has a lot of compost. Cucumbers have to have a lot of water. To be able to give them enough water in a garden is very difficult, but to plant them in a self-watering container.

Cucumber plants are vines. cucumber plants will either crawl out of their container or climb a trellis. If you are going to put your cucumber plants in containers, it is best to have a trellis to climb on. If you put them in a garden, if they have trellis to climb on, they will take up less room, grow straighter and are shapelier. This way also makes it easier to tend to and harvest.

If you are going to plant your container make sure that there is plenty of roaming room. if you are going to use a trellis for your cucumber plants, make sure that the containers that you are using for them, are easy to attach a trellis to.

You can put the cucumber seeks directly into the soil, but you need to wait until the soil is staying about 70 degrees F. all the time.

To grow your own transplants, you will need to start your seeds half on inch deep in four inch pots about three weeds before transplant date. Put three seeds to a pot, after germination, cut out the two smallest plants with your scissors. Always keep the temperatures at our above 70 degrees F. during and after germination. When you are transplanting your cucumber plants be very careful with their roots because they do not like to be transplanted. If frost is going to threaten your cucumber plants, you need to move your containers inside or cover them well, because cucumbers can not survive subfreezing temperatures.

Most of the diseases that will hurt your cucumber comes form garden soil. Because with you using no garden soil in your containers, this makes it that  you have no diseases that will attack your cucumbers. Late n a hot, damp summer, powdery mildew can sometimes be a problem. to not have this problem, it is to choose a mildew-resistant variety.

Cucumber beetles which are both spotted and striped, plaque all the varieties of the squash family, but they are very partial to their cucumber namesakes. To prevent this is that you need to grow the plants under lightweight now covers so the beetle do not have a chance to set up camp. Two varieties of cucumbers that are described as non bitter or bitter-free, are less attractive to cucumbers beetles. Pyrethrin or rotenone will kill the beetles, but these poisons will also kill other visitors to the cucumber plant or it flowers such as bees and other pollinating insects.

Cut the cucumbers from the vine with scissors whenever they get to the size that you like.

Cucumbers are a vegetable that is pretty easy to grow. They can be grown in containers and in the garden with the rest of your vegetables that you are growing.