Complete Guide for Growing Cucumbers: Seed Starting, Transplanting, Fertilizing, Trellsing & Pests
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden) Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden)
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 Published On Mar 7, 2018

This is a compilation of all my cucumber videos over the years. I made a digital table of contents so you can easily jump to the parts you need to review. I cover seed starting indoors & outdoors, transplanting, fertilizing, trellising, maintenance, male & female flowers, hand pollinating and pest & diseases.

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All About Growing Cucumbers Playlist:
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0:00 Introduction - Spray Cautions & Heavy Feeders
2:00 Starting Cucumbers Indoors Beginning
2:05 Warm Weather Crops and oil Temperatures
2:52 Heavy Feeders and Some Fertilizing & Watering Basics
3:40 Full Sun Plants and Size of Starting Containers
4:50 Size Examples, When to Start them Indoors, Thinning Pots
7:00 Container Set up & Seed Starting - Planting Seed Basics
12:20 Watering: Bottom Watering Your Seed Starts
12:44 When Do You Fertilizer Your Indoor Cucumber Starts
16:10 Setting Up Your Outdoor Planting Area for Cucumbers
18:45 Four Trellising Options & Planting Examples - Baby Plants
21:30 More Trellising Examples with Full Grow Cucumber Plants
23:55 More Trellises as Vertical is the Way to Go
25:25 Jet Water Spray 2x's Weekly for Spider Mites and Aphids
26:00 Using 6 and 8 Foot Stakes with Chicken Wire for a Trellis
27:18 Epsom Salts: Mix and How Often to Use it with Fertilizer
29:36 Difference Between Male and Female Flowers
30:30 Removing Leave for Air Flow - Leaf Miner Patterns & More
31:50 Using Peppermint Spray - Damaged Leaf Pheromones
34:22 Full Building Video of a 6 foot Shelving Unit Cuke Trellis
39:02 Identifying Powdery Mildew with Examples & Spray
42:30 More Patterns of Mildews on Cukes & Related Plants
43:25 Identifying the Cucumber Better & Squash Bug Eggs
44:55 Neem Oil Effectiveness and Male & Female Flowers
46:57 Water Soluble Fertilizer Every 7-10 Days & Back Up Plants
48:05 Starting Cucumbers in Cups - Outdoor Starting Information
51:20 Hand Pollination of Cucumber with a Paint Brush
54:14 Collecting Cucumber Seeds - Let them Yellow & Get Fat

Thanks so much for your support! Cheers & Thanks, Gary!

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