All About Cucumbers

All About Cucumbers

Some tips on growing cucumbers. The links will take you to the full blog entry with more information and the videos. Or you can just watch the videos here.

How and When to Start Cucumbers Indoors: For New Gardeners!

Cucumbers like the warm weather. It is best to start them indoors about four weeks before you have regular 60 degree nights and when the garden soil is warmed. That is about one week to germinate. Two weeks to grow indoors and one week to slowly be acclimated to the outdoor sun. You can push it a bit at mid 50 degree nights if you want. They seem to grow best in the 65-85 degree day range.

There is not a great advantage to pushing them out the door early. They like the heat and mature quickly like in 45-55 days. They will just sit there in the ground if it is too cold.