What is Cucumber?

Cucumber is a tender, warm-season vegetable that produces able-bodied if accustomed able affliction and protection. The accouterment of accepted varieties abound rapidly and crave abundant space. Vertical training methods and new dwarf varieties now acquiesce cucumbers to be developed for slicing, salads and pickling, even in baby garden plots.

Cucumbers are usually started by burying seeds anon in the garden. Plant afterwards the crisis of frost has passed, and the clay has broiled in the spring. Balmy clay is all-important for formation of seeds and able advance of plants. With abounding clay moisture, cucumbers advance in balmy summer weather. A additional burying for abatement autumn may be fabricated in mid- to backward summer.

Cucumbers may be crude for extra-early yields. Sow two or three seeds in peat pots, peat pellets or added containers 3 to 4 weeks afore the frost-free date. Thin to one plant per container. Plant transplants 1 to 2 anxiety afar in rows 5 to 6 anxiety afar if they accept two to four accurate leaves. Do not acquiesce transplants to get too ample in containers or they will not displace well. Like added backcountry crops, cucumbers do not displace auspiciously if pulled as bare-root plants.