Tips on how to grow cucumbers in pot and in the garden

Cucumber is one of the most popular summer vegetable we plant in the spring in our garden and harvest in the summer. And if we don't have the space to plant vegetables, we can grow cucumbers in pots on the balcony. Growing cucumbers is medium difficult and with proper care can give us a satisfactory harvest. So let's see what are the best varieties to plant, as well as tips for in order to enjoy the most delicious and crunchy cucumbers from our garden. Here are some of secrets or tips for growing cucumber in pot and in your garden. 1. Know the varieties of cucumber. The varieties and hybrids of cucumber, depending on the size of the fruit, are divided into large-fruited varieties and small-fruited ones that are also used for pickling. A traditional long-fruited variety of cucumber is the colivian cucumber, suitable for summer outdoor cultivation that gives very tasty smooth dark green fruits, about 40 cm long. Most cucumber varieties are harvested 2 months after transplanting the young cucumber plants. 2. Know when to plant cucumber. If we want to plant early young cucumber plants in March to April before the weather warms up enough, we must prepare the seed pods in a vegetable greenhouse and transplant them after about a month, as soon as they are ready. If the cucumber is planted at a later time, during the May-June period, when the temperature has risen to 20-25 C, we can plant the cucumber seed directly in the ground. 3. Know at what distance to plant. We plant cucumber plants at the appropriate planting distances, avoiding dense plantings, facilitating creeping vegetation, sparse planting every 50-70 cm between sites, and 1-50-1-70 meters between planting lines, helps to better ventilate and illuminate the plants and reduce fungal and entomological diseases. 4. Know how often does cucumber need watering. Cucumber is demanding on water to have good growth and significant fruiting. Watering is needed every 2-3 days during the spring, and every 1-2 days during the summer, so that the soil is kept moist during the growing season. 5. Know how often do we put compost in the cucumber. Initially, before transplanting the cucumber, we incorporate organic matter into the planting sites in the form of compost and well-digested manure. At the same time, we add a complete organic fertilizer every 3 weeks to help the vigor, the vegetative growth of the plants, the flowering, and the production of cucumber fruits. 6. Know how to deal with diseases and insects of cucumber. Cultivation of cucumber is affected by various diseases and insects that infect the foliage, shoots, and flowers. A particularly important problem in the cultivation of cucumber is the fungus of powdery mildew that causes whitening on the leaves and also creates a problem on the fruits. To deal with them, we dust with sulfur around the root, so that the fumes during the hot days provide protection for the powdery mildew and the blackhead. To treat cucumber insects, we spray their foliage every 2 weeks with potassium salt supplied by agricultural shops, as well as with natural pyrethrin to protect them from thrips. 7. Know how cucumber propagated? The best way to propagate them is by seed. If we want to keep specific varieties of cucumber that we will plant every year, we choose varieties of cucumber and not hybrids. It should be noted that cucumber hybrids have only female flowers and produce virgin fruit without seeds whenever we can not cultivate next year. In some varieties the cucumber fruit is bitter due to dry thermal conditions or sudden changes in temperature and humidity. Many old growers mistakenly believe that the bitterness of cucumber was due to the accidental pressing of small cucumber fruits in the ground. That's all for today's video. See you next upload.