Cucumber Garden

Training cucumbers on a fence or trellis will reduce space and lift the fruit off the soil.

Cucumber garden. Plant seeds 1 inch deep and about 2 to 3 feet apart in a row depending on variety see seed packet for details. Cucumber plants grow in two forms. Typically bush varieties take 6 8 weeks to ripen fully.

It can be present in the cucumber usually showing up in the peel but sometimes in the fruit itself. Cucumbers can also be planted in mounds or hills that are spaced 1 to 2 feet apart with 2 to 3 seeds planted in each mound. The preferred method of cucumber planting is direct seeding in the garden after the soil has warmed as the seeds will not germinate in a soil chillier than 60 degrees.

You can use succession planting strategies for bush cucumbers. Cucumbers naturally contain a bitter chemical called cucurbitacin. Within smaller gardens cucumbers may be trained for climbing on a fence or trellis.

Just push two or three cucumber seeds an inch into the soil spacing the plantings 18 to 36 inches apart. Growing cucumbers is for warmer weather. Cucumbers may be planted in hills or rows about 1 inch 2 5 cm deep and thinned as needed.

If you have a small garden or want to grow in containers bush cucumbers are a better choice. Since cucumbers are a vine crop they usually require a lot of space. These grow from a central base rather than as a vine and take up less room.

Cucumber seeds need to be planted one inch deep and lightly covered with soil in a well drained part of your garden. In large gardens cucumber vines may spread throughout rows. Plants are so frost tender that they shouldn t be set into the garden until soil temperatures are reliably in the 70 degree range no less than 2 weeks after the last frost date.