Your Cucumbers Will LOVE You For This: 5 Things To Do NOW!

In this video, I share 5 things to do immediately after planting cucumbers that your cucumbers will love you for! Be sure to do these things shortly after planting cucumber plants out in your garden to set your cucumbers up for amazing success this season.

Cucumbers can be finicky and temperamental, and if you don't set your cucumber plants up for success immediately, they may struggle their entire lives. Cucumbers grow quickly and have short lifespans, so early mistakes can lead to failure. Getting the initial conditions right for each cucumber plant is critically important for best performance. These 5 cucumber tips will help set you on the right path for a great cucumber harvest.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 5 Tips For Growing Cucumber Plants After Planting
0:38 Tip #1: When To Transplant Cucumbers
2:34 Tip #2: Mulching Cucumbers
4:30 Tip #3: Growing Cucumbers Vertically
6:10 Tip #4: Growing Parthenocarpic Cucumbers
12:19 Tip #5: Succession Planting Cucumbers
14:54 Bonus Cucumber Tip
16:43 Adventures With Dale

If you have questions about how to grow cucumbers in your garden, have questions about growing fruit trees or want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and "garden hacks" like this, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and "how to" garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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[colorfulbutmuted]

I plant my cucumber at the end of my sunflower rows. I then help guide my cucumber vine to grab a hold of the sunflower stalks. My vines are a sight to see, as they spread down the sunflower rows about two to four feet off the ground in a sprawling manner as though they were crawling on the ground. They are very easy to "prune”, as I just guide offshoot vines to grab on to a new sunflower stalk, or at a higher/lower point on a stalk from the original main vine. My sunflowers grow 6-9' tall, so there is no competition between the cucumber vine and sunflower leaves either.

[margebickley]

I love watching you guys. I am soon to be 82 and I do a lot of canning but my strength is not what it use to be. I have been looking at the harvest Right Freeze dryer for awhile. My husband passed away last May so finances have gone down tremendously but by next year I hopefully will have money enough to buy one. I have learned a lot from you folks.
Sure would Like to win the freezer this year as garden is coming in already.
God Bless
Marge Bickley

[TheMillennialGardener]

If you found this video helpful, please “Like” and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
0:00 5 Tips For Growing Cucumber Plants After Planting
0:38 Tip #1: When To Transplant Cucumbers
2:34 Tip #2: Mulching Cucumbers
4:30 Tip #3: Growing Cucumbers Vertically
6:10 Tip #4: Growing Parthenocarpic Cucumbers
12:19 Tip #5: Succession Planting Cucumbers
14:54 Bonus Cucumber Tip
16:43 Adventures With Dale

[Coachwill]

I learned more in this short video than a lifetime experimenting with gardening. Your style and presentation made it w day to watch. Great job!

[duanelee]

I have noticed very few Utuber Garden shows rarely mention soil temperatures. After 50 years of gardening I have learned to plant once the soil temp of a minimum of 48-50 F is perfect for planting cucumbers, tomatoes and vegetables with the exception of leafy greens.

[dortemadsen]

Best part about the 5th tip is that IT IS NOT TOO LATE for me to sew some cucumbers and zucchinis this year. 😁
My tiny garden has been lying fallow for years but I half heartedly planted a couple of tomato plants this year and the little golden sun tomatoes reminded me of how great it is to pick fresh produce! Now I also understand why I was never able to keep those darn cucumbers alive for long and everything else in the garden tended to go downhill after they started to die (actually one of the reasons I gave up on the whole thing years back).

Thank you, that definitely earned you a subscriber!

[NBZW]

To raise cucumbers, my grandfather at summers end would dig a trench 12” deep and 12’ in length with an East West alignment...Next step, clean out the henhouse and place the findings, feathers and all in the trench, add Lotta water and refill the trench...next step, install a fence post at each end of the trench, apply chicken wire to the posts. Never a bitter cuke, always plenty for family and neighbors, there would be enough pickling cuks for 12 jars of grandmas garlic dills, a years supply.

[RA-rfnz]

Cuernavaca, Mexico is where you want to plant yourself, the City of Eternal Spring. Aztec emperors made their homes there and the Spanish conquistador, Hernan Cortes made it his residence there in 1535 after conquering the Aztec Empire. I stayed there for about a month in summer of 1992 and it was wonderful.

[tammybrown]

I enjoyed this video. This needs to be taught in schools. Some sort of program to give kids seeds and such.

[firetop]

Thank you for this vid it's been a massive help to me, I'm a self taught self employed gardener in my local area, I'm dyslexic so struggle reading most times, this break down helped me loads, I do research on plants and mediums daily it takes me about 20× longer then most to learn the simplest things when reading this vid got straight to the point awsome work growmie thank you 👍

[anne-mariekane]

This is my first true gardening season in SE NC and I'm relieved I found your channel before starting my garden this year. You've been a great resource for what to do or not do but even if I wasn't living in NC, you do a great job explaining things for anyone. Thank you!

[tomyanno]

YOU ARE AWESOME!!! I learned more from you in 16 minutes than I’ve learned from all others combined! Thank you so much. I’m in North Myrtle Beach and have scant bees and abundant fungus! Doing everything possible to pollinate my tomatoes, zucchini and now cucumbers, surrounding my garden with flowers, etc. Thanks again…you are so helpful!!!

[tuffguytattoo]

I just bought some cucumber plants and seeds today. The algorithm brought up your video . Exactly what I needed to know

[orangemoonglows]

i'm in a dry desert/95f+ ever day (southern california), it's best for me to start melons, squash, etc by direct seed. they need to grow accustomed to that heat without too much coddling. transplanting can be difficulty because of that intense heat unless maybe if you've started and have grown the seedlings outside in that heat. mine are all fine. nothing's bothering them.

[llswink]

I've been growing Beit Alpha for 3 seasons now and they are my favorite for fresh eating and for pickling. I never realized that succession planting would help me have more fruits. This year I planted at least 20 plants and now realize that I planted way too early and too many. The weather has now gotten into 80s to 90s and the plants are fizzling out. I got the same harvest from all these plants as I did from 5 the last few years. Will be planting some new seeds for a last crop for the summer and will be spacing them out this time! Thank you!

[MicrowavedTofu]

I check my plants daily for new blooms. I stick my finger in the center of each of them. It really helps to pollinate them ☺️

[Blackwaterswamp]

I just started gardening this year /month and I found your channel to be so clear and helpful on every aspect of gardening. Building, planning, watering, diseases, pests, varieties. Thank you 🌞❤️

[nicholem]

Guatemala is nicknamed the Land of Eternal Spring.. and it's cheap to live there. It's my second home!

[julesgoh]

Oh wow!! I only just subscribed to your channel this month. I was thinking do I need another gardening channel BUT when I heard your tip #5, I was totally sold. The details you go into is just amazingly helpful. It answers almost all my questions about cucumber growing. Sooo good to know I should expect them to grow fast and die fast. They keep dying so quickly on me. Now I know why. Thank you! I will definitely be watching more of your new and old videos.

[wesleymargeson]

This is one of the most helpful garden videos I have ever seen. Thank you!