Are you looking for some tips on how to start cucumbers from seed in this video?
I'm gonna go over some tips on how to start cucumbers from seed and plant them right in your garden
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I'm gonna go over just some very simple ways on how to plant
cucumbers from seeds into your garden the method that we're gonna go over today is I'm actually I started this cucumber seeds in
And basically I started them before I'm actually gonna plant them into the garden before we get started
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Back here. I just wanted to just show you some of the steps that I do to plant cucumbers
I don't know about you, but this is my favorite time of year. I love
the beginning of the spring kind of summertime
When I can get everything all prepared and ready for the garden, there's always different. There's always different times for it
You know, I actually start through my my seed starting early in the early in the year
But this time I really love it because I'm actually getting anything out to the garden
So I know that that you might be also at this time of year as well
So hopefully you enjoy this just as much as me
So I wanted to just go over one of the methods that I do for planting cucumbers in the garden
So normally you can there's a couple of different options you have you can actually direct seed the cucumbers right into the garden and
I've done that before. It's very successful. There's no
You know, you might have to do a few more seeds in there
But for the most part, it's it's pretty it's pretty easy to do
so that is one way you can actually do it in and basically you can follow along with this and you can
Basically, just put all the amendments into your garden that I'll do right now
But instead of digging a hole for for these, you know
You're just basically putting it in and just putting some dirt over it the only drawback with that is if you know
Sometimes you get some wild animals that will dig it up or some you know
Some of the seeds might not germinate they might not have enough down there
So what I do is just a little temporary thing to to basically kind of hedge my bet here
It's just I plant them in these little people these little seed starting trays
You can do a couple of them if you need, you know, just anything
So basically, I just put one seed in each one and then I just let them grow
Basically, I water them up and I just actually have them inside and let them grow. It's on to Otto and then
you can basically
these are these are
These are probably about a week to week and a half old
you can get wait a little bit if you want I
Generally plant them when they're about a week to week and a half old as long as the weather is not predicted to be too
Too hot because you obviously don't want them to be stressed out, but you can actually go up to about three weeks
With these in here, you don't want to go much longer than maybe three or four weeks
You kind of kind of push in at that point depending on how big the the actual seed starting tray is
But you know you can plant them anyway for a week to two weeks and they do just fine
So let's get started with it. So
That then I'm gonna be planting the
cucumbers in
And just so you know
It is best have some sort of trellis or some kind of apparatus that you're gonna be putting the cucumbers on
Because they do like to grow up you can grow cucumbers
Horizontally, however, the
They they're gonna be different they might actually have a different color to the cucumbers if they're not hidden
right, and sometimes they'll spoil and a lot of you know different other things could happen to there you get some
cucumber mosaic virus
Because of it so it is better to have them on a trellis
It does promote airflow and it also, you know just get some up and it's more visually appealing to be honest it yeah
But you can't do it the other way as well
I I don't I actually have not done it that way so I don't really but just building a simple truss
I actually do have a video so I'll put a video up in the cards above if you're not sure how to build a trellis
I show you a very easy way and how to do build this very exact same one
Alright, so what I do is I kind of get the area that I'm going to do everything in
So what you want to do is you want to actually build a trench as you can see what I'm doing here
Basically what this does is it's gonna allow you to put the cucumber plant
directly in there and
You want to so if you're planting from seed like I said before is you can you can actually skip this this particular step
Right here
although I still would recommend to do this because
you want to add in some amendments so that when the
Q corn plant does start growing it will have enough to need to
soak up all those nutrients and
Particular amendments are you putting in there?
But in the in this instance, we're gonna plant the the little seedlings in here
So that's why I'm digging up a trench in here. So it makes it easy for it. And what I'm gonna do is put some
different amendments in here so that
Be able to take advantage of all those nutrients
So the advantage of actually putting in the
the amendments in here is it's gonna
Promote the growth of the of the cucumber plant. You want to have a good organic matter?
In there so that it does grow
and in this sense, we're using the composted cow manure and
You can use some other type of compost such as mushroom compost. It's pretty good
There is some chicken
Compost as well that you can that you can use
the other thing you can add in here is
You can add in a good balanced
fertilizer
and the
Cucumbers do like they do like to have a good balance in there
But you do have to have a little bit more of the phosphorus and the potassium
And therefore the cucumber's so don't go too much on the nitrogen
So generally what I usually do is just kind of squish
So what I do is I just basic put them in
See
Really wanted to but he seemed sure these are awesome
So they're they're like really small ones
So you as I said, you want to space these out enough for what you have to grow this on
I tend to go a little bit a little bit heavier on it. I I find that I get better yields
I don't even though the plants were a little bit crowded together and
You know
They they are going to go through a period where it's going to get really hot and if it does get moist
Then the leaves can get some type of ours
But I I tend to go heavy because I actually do a succession planning after this. So my spacing may be different than yours
so you may
May want to space them out a little bit further than I do
And maybe put in this particular area you could put maybe
Maybe four plants in there and now we'd give you a little bit more spacing so that when it does grow out
It's gonna do it, but I always get a lot of yields because I do canning. So am I keep my instance?
I don't mind having it pretty heavy. Even if the the entire crop does get a
Virus towards the end it always seems to happen
Anyways, even if you do have really spaced out so I try to get as many as I can up front
So that's just kind of my method towards
You know gardening so you might need to experiment and see how far and how close you want to have it
So one of the other things that I do also use
They do refer of higher PK, so if you look at the NPK, they they prefer much higher
phosphorous potassium because of the
They're just one of those kind of victuals that that do prefer that you still have to give it some nitrogen and that that soluble
Fertilizer plus the compost they have is plenty of plenty of fertilizer for it when I am when I always transplant
When I do transplant them in I like to use the bloom
More bloom. It's my Alaska
It's got a ten tenten in here. So I don't I don't use that
I actually I think for a gallon they tell you to put I think a tablespoon per gallon
I actually do much less to that when I first transplant the man because I don't want to shock them or anything
But these are these ago because it doesn't seem to burn the roots or anything. I always have good luck with it
So I just give it a very weak solution of that. So when I'm water and everything in
They get a nice little drink
These are great for the root development, so this will really help the few criminal plants get started here
Alright so again some things to consider after you do transplant them you do want to make sure that
that you do keep them nice and watered and
That you're just checking to make sure that they're had to do it. Okay, but generally if you haven't watered in they do
They do seem to adapt to being transplant very pretty reasonably well, but hopefully that helped you out if you have any other questions
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