How To Grow And Care For Cucumbers

Let's learn a little bit about how to grow Cucumbers. Cucumbers are an annual plant. These types of vegetables are a very popular one for people to grow. I personally think fresh vegetables and fruit is so much better to eat then the things you buy at a store. When you are planting cucumbers you want to watch out for cucumber beetles,aphids and also powder molds these will ruin all of your beautiful crops in no time at all.

What is the best time of year to plant cucumbers

Caring for cucumbers. Cucumbers like to have warm soil to grow in so the best time to plant them is after the last sign of frost is gone. The best time to start planting Cucumbers is in the spring.

How to care for cucumbers

You will want to plant the seeds in warm soil. After about 5 weeks or so you may want to plant another row of cucumber seeds so they will be ready for late summer or early fall harvesting.The holes that are to be dug for them are only a half to 1 inch deep and every twelve" apart from one another. Since they are viny plant they will need some space to grow. You can even go and get a trellis or a lattice so they have something to climb up and the vegetables are not just laying on the ground for bugs and want not to eat it up. And now that you have the seeds in the ground and trellis set up now you can cover the ground with mulch, the cucumber seed will like the moisture that is kept in. When you see that the cucumber is ready you will want to pick it off the vine before it gets to big and turns yellow or rots.

What can you plant with cucumber

The cucumber vegetable plant goes real well with corn, peas,radish, beans as well as sunflowers.

This plant does not go will with

They do not like and herbs that have a pungent or even semi fragrance to them. They also dislike to be around potatoes.