Insights from the Garden: Cucumber Care and Maintenance
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- A message from the garden on cucumber care for mid-season maintenance. I get inspired while working and here are a few thoughts on cucumber pruning, pest management, and the varieties I'm growing this year.
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Wish you posted more frequently, but I get that it's a lot of work. I enjoy your videos man.
Thank you for this 🙏🏼✨
So timely! Thank-you for another helpful topic. Glad I’m not the only one that can’t pronounce some of these names😝
Yes!! Thank you 🙏🏼 ✨
Love your videos, Scott. I've learned so much from you. 🙂
Thank you! 🙏✨💜
I have been doing so good and cucumbers this year. I’m already up to 26 jars of pickles plus we eat fresh all the time.🌱🥒
That’s amazing! 🤘✨
Love your cucumber advice. Good advice for a lot of veg.
I am currently in Kyle (a south Austin transplant).
Happy Gardening and Thank You 💚
Thanks very much! 🙏✨
New subscriber here! I just pickled my first cucumbers! I love your channel!
Welcome!! Thank you so much 🙏🏼✨
Yes, I prune. I saw DANNY from Deep South.,saying that you can prune your cucumbers. You can prune your squash and zucchini leaves so you can find them so the bees can find them.
Plus cucumbers seem to be hiding all the time Lol 🌱🌱🌱
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I hear you about the aphids and I've been trying to take it easy on soaping them. I have a new menace this year: spider mites on the the tomatoes and beans. Do you use the same philosophy? Thanks in advance. BTW - love, love, love your channel. I've been doing great growing again this year in CenTex thanks to your advice.
Hey! Thank you so much 🙏🏼✨
Spider mites are a true menace. They proliferate in hot & dry conditions when plants are stressed. My philosophy with them is similar, but there is often a tipping point when I decide to pull plants that are affected by them.
Support overall wellness, apply seaweed to foliage weekly, mulch, water deeply, and I do believe that shade cloth is essential throughout Texas summers.
That said, if by beans you’re referring to snap or green beans, they really don’t last through June in my experience. Tomatoes if well established and relatively healthy can be pruned hard by two-thirds as we approach the end of the month. That could eliminate a lot of spider mites and set you up for a fall harvest. Also, we can plant both of those crops again in the next couple of weeks for fall production. Not gonna be easy though!
I hope this helps!
@@newgardenroad It helped a lot! My plan for this year was to just plant new cherry tomatoes July 1 (just did) instead of 2/3 cutting back Spring's tomatoes. So I cut many leaves off of the spring tomatoes and just letting them ripen the fruit they have on them. It seams I'm right on track with what you suggested.
The beans are Southern Peas and Lima Beans so I'm gutting it out with the mites. They look to be subsiding and not spreading to more plants. It is tough to let them munch away on my leaves but I really like your plan of being more hands off and let nature do its thing. Spraying soap/Neem is difficult because there are so many leaf surfaces.
Shade cloth has been a problem solver! I'm having huge crops and plants are living longer and thriving. Plus, I like being in a cooler garden too! I have it above and the southwest corner.
Thank you. I've been wanting to prune off some lower leaves from my cucumber because it's getting hard to know where to put the watering wand.
You're welcome! 🙏✨
when was this vlog shot? i'm in austin too, my cucumber plants and watermelon plants are all dead in the heat.
Three weeks ago a cucumber vine started growing in my garden from nowhere (I have no idea where it came from). It was in my avocado tree planter box. I tried to relocate it to its own space and when i did that the whole vine shriveled up and is nearly dead with in an hour of moving it. Do you know why this could have happened?
Their root systems are very sensitive to disturbances and they don’t always transplant well. Planting seeds in the garden yields the best results, but in the case of volunteer plants we just have to give it our best shot 👍🏼✨
@@newgardenroad Ahh that makes sense. I wasn't especially delicate with the roots as they were deeper than i anticipated. 😔 I should have left it where it was.
One other question while I have your attention. I live in a tropical environment (Bali Indonesia) and have been trying to grow strawberries, but i only seem to get the leaves and no strawberries. Do you have any ideas what i could be doing wrong? (I am only a beginner gardener)