A complete guide for growing cucumber plants all summer long. I cover everything you need to do to harvest cucumbers all season long.
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0:00 Complete Guide to Growing Cucumber Plants Intro
0:54 Failing vs Thriving Cucumber Plants
2:25 Examples – Plant Cucumbers in Waves All Summer!
4:30 Healthy Plants & Introduction
5:41 15 Perfect Cucumbers Harvested
6:09 Wave 1: Beat Up Plants Needing Care
6:40 Assessing the Cucumber Plants
7:35 Epsom Salt Use Overview
8:45 Harvesting & Assessing a Producing Plant
10:42 Bottom Pruning Cucumbers Intro
12:00 My Thoughts on Pruning ‘Side’ Vines
12:56 Bottom Pruning Done & Benefits
14:30 Hatched Squash Bugs
14:55 Pruning ‘Side’ Vines as Needed
15:52 Pest Management is Easier with Pruning
16:35 Water Example – Real Time
19:28 Water-Soluble Fertilizing (Earth Beds)
12:26 Wave 2: Assessment & Plan
24:05 15 Cucumbers from 3 Plants
24:33 Floppy Droopy Leaves Explained
25:00 Removing Leaves Under the Canopy
25:34 Pruning Leaves Example
25:53 Pruning ‘Side’ Vines Examples
27:03 Moving ‘Side’ Vines Move & Tuck
27:44 Complete Pruned Cucumber Example 2
29:00 Terminating ‘Side’ Vines Pruning
29:56 Basic Top Dressing Example
31:44 Water Container Cucumbers – Real Time
33:09 Why Do Cucumber Leaves Yellow?
34:14 Water-Soluble Fertilizing Container Cucumbers
35:15 Peppermint Oil Spray & Recipe
38:00 Using Insect Dust on Cucumber Leaves
39:37 The Basic Planting Hole
43:10 Direct Seeding & Succession Planting
45:39 Conclusion
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9 Comments
Good morning. Gary. You look GREAT 😊
Wow perfect cucumber 🥒
Always the best information from you for years thank you God bless. I have flowers now for my cucumbers, but this year I put all brand new soil fertilizer. Everything cleaned out the pots did everything and I'm not getting what I feel. I should get my tomatoes. I don't know every single one of them have some kind of fungus. I can't find any bugs probably so small. I can't see them. I'm doing this for years also every year there's something new I don't know so I figured I'd try getting all new fertilizer soil and it looks beautiful soft and I don't know let's see. Thanks again Gary.
Had something interesting that took me 2 weeks to research and figure out and thought id share. I had what looked like dozens of eggs on all plants in 1 raised bed. It happened twice over the past couple weeks after rain. After much research found it was Artillery Fungus or cannonball fungus. Crazy stuff. I removed my shredded mulch and top 2 or so inches of soil and threw it in trash. I covered with new soil and pinestraw mulch. Im in hot humid hardiness zone 9b near baton rouge la. No more shredded wood mulch for me!!
Crazy New England weather! Cucumber beetle and Japanese beetle are a nuisance.
I have really struggled with cucumbers this year. The rolly polies have eaten several seedlings. I direct seeded on June 1. One has stayed at shorter than 3" for over a month due to nibbling on the first leaves. I have one that's started to take off around 6", and another twice its height. The others were eaten. No cukes yet.
I have 3 seedlings I just started inside that I'll plant in a different location, maybe with my beans where they did well last year.
What variety are these please?
Great video!!!!THANK YOU!!!🍅🥒🍅🥒
I lost three cucumber plants because I used baking soda, dish soap, oil , and peppermint oil . I not sure if it was because it was at the bottom of the spray bottle 1/4 left. Because I used it on some new plants and they are fine. But I did what you suggested, keep on planting more cucumber seeds and plants