Getting cucumber seeds and growing cucumbers - ideally from your favorite varieties in your own garden - is something that more and more hobby gardeners are doing. If you want to grow cucumbers, you should know the propagation rules relevant to cucumbers and choose the right cucumber seeds or grow them yourself.
How can I successfully grow cucumbers?
To grow cucumbers successfully, you should obtain cucumber seeds from fully ripe cucumbers, grow the plants in a greenhouse or outdoors, pay attention to temperatures above 20 degrees and use measures such as grafting and thinning for more productive harvests.
Growing cucumbers – one becomes many – simple and effective
A greenhouse offers optimal conditions for successfully growing cucumbers yourself. Germination and cultivation are quicker and safer in a protected atmosphere than in the open air. Due to the balanced, warm, humid and wind-protected climate under glass, the cucumber plants bloom faster. The first cucumbers will be harvested from July.
For outdoor cucumbers in the garden or on the balcony, the harvest is from August to the end of October. The best time to plant cucumbers outdoors begins in mid-May. If you value particularly productive and he althy plants, you can use the following proven breeding measures:
- Growing cucumber seeds
- Refine cucumbers
- Maximize side shoots
Cucumbers Propagation via cuttings rarely works with cucumbers. In addition, you cannot overwinter cucumbers.
How to get cucumber seeds from a cucumber
You can only get germinable seeds from a fully ripe cucumber. You can recognize germinable, ripe seeds when you open the kernels. If the contents are firm, flat and whitish, they are ripe seeds. However, only a thin membrane in the core is immature or unfertilized.
To remove the seeds, open the cucumber and remove the seeds. Rinse seeds in a sieve and dry on absorbent paper for 2 days. Then store the seeds in a dark and dry place until sowing. Don’t forget – note the seed type and harvest date!
Refine cucumbers and grow your own variety of cucumbers
When grafting cucumbers, two different types of young plants grow together, which complement each other in their positive properties. To do this, cucumber varieties with positive properties are placed on pest and disease-resistant pumpkin rootstocks.
More harvest success through thinning out
It is advisable to thin out cucumbers in order to achieve a more productive harvest. And if you want to harvest cucumbers in abundance, you should break out the first cucumber blossom. This requires a lot of energy and prevents further flowering and fruit setting.
Tips & Tricks
To grow cucumbers successfully, make sure that the temperature never drops below 20° degrees. Cucumbers only grow he althy and tasty when there is sufficient heat.
