Tips for Direct-Seeding Cucumbers

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[ColoradoTodd]

Sorry, Greg, we're getting all of your rain this Spring down here in northern Colorado.

[michaellippmann]

Great video Greg, I do something similar, I made a bunch of cloches from 3L water jugs, I pull the mulch aside, water well, put the seeds in and clap a cloche down over it. Then I push the mulch up around the cloche to kind of seal it. Works really well for me and have gottens years of use out of these things.
I see your blackflies are alive, active and well! 😂
We just had our first rains here this past weekend and yesterday in about 4 - 5 weeks. Garden loved it. Started harvesting garlic scapes yesterday!
Hope you have had rain and lots of it since you made this video.
Take care!
Mike

[karenmacleod]

Well I put out six cucumber plants yesterday - not our usual long burbless - but tough bush types. If you haven't had squash beetles you cannot believe the damage they can inflict on plants. And yes today I see them on the cucumber plants which I did not plant near where I had had them last year. I used Safers Trounce on them but the lovely rain today means that I'll have to reapply and hope for the best. Maybe I'll be putting in seeds as well.

[melissamilos]

having just moved to Nova Scotia, I am so grateful for you. Your knowledge and insight has been a wonderful resource and your deeper thoughts of this video was much needed. thankyou. the domes you show are going to be the jump start I need.

[JoyoftheGardenandHome]

I couldn't take the chance of slugs and cutworms taking out my seedlings so a month of pot growing is it. I do cover them with gallon jugs with the nights still chilly.
I do worry about car accidents every other day I'm on the rd. I have little kids. Makes me drive better, maybe...

[franksinatra]

I definitely use poly tunnels in the spring for getting a head start too but what I've been doing with cucs and squash is starting a week early and putting in some seeds and in 7 days plant again regardless of whether the first ones germinate or not. And then I usually plant again in another 7 days. I usually can't use all the cuc and squash seeds anyway before they expire. If the first batch makes I get an early start but if not I have two more succession plantings that should work if they rot or freeze.

[DavidMFChapman]

I started two kinds of cucumber indoors, potted them up, hardened them off, transplanted them, then half of them died. I had some spares, so I transplanted again. Crossing my fingers!

[julie-annepineau]

I struggled with germination in the garden this year but the rain last week woke up a lot of seeds I thought had failed. Lets hope this weeks rain wakes up everything I planted this week.

[kailadawn]

I love that you dig to see if the seeds have germinated. I do it too because I get impatient waiting for them to pop up and I always worry it’s going to ruin them.

[AMKB]

Where we are, wildfires, rather than forest fires, are more of a concern. My biggest worry is that we have not been able to do controlled burns early in the spring. The areas we need to clear have too many outbuildings to watch out for. The end result is a very flammable ring surrounding our home. At this point, I'm seriously considering borrowing grazing animals from someone, just to get it under control. When we first moved out here, there were a number of fires in the area, close enough that we were preparing for evacuation. A couple of homes were lost. The families were not home, but sadly, one family lost their dog, too.

Thankfully, enough people had already done controlled burns that the wildfire was stopped by them. These fires turned out to be human caused, with the one nearest us looking like it was arson. No one was ever caught, though.

[MichaelJosephJr]

I only burn occasionally and only after a good rain. Never in dry conditions.

[allisterbarton]

Did you end up finding any germinated cucumbers in your soil; is it late to sow cucumber seed now?

[samivelable]

My cucumbers def seem to be suffering! Do you keep them covered even as seedlings with this cool weather we are having right now? (I'm in Halifax.)