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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Bush Cucumbers: Hidden Secrets!

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

We think of cucumbers as trailing or vining plants, but there are a ton of compact, bush varieties you should consider when growing in smaller urban spaces. Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, will be out May 7, 2019. If you pre-order the book and forward your receipt to kevin@epicgardening.com, I'll send you a free pack of heirloom, organic seeds from one of my favorite seed suppliers! Pre-Order Field Guide to Urban Gardening Support Epic Gardening Support Epic Gardening on Patreon Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, what's going on everyone.

0:03.0

Kevin from Epic Gardening here.

0:05.0

Today we're talking about cucumbers, but we're not talking about those vining boys.

0:09.0

We're talking about the Bush boys, the Bush cukes.

0:14.0

How do you grow these and why might you even grow these?

0:18.6

Well, you know me, I'm a big small space gardener guy

0:21.8

and if you've got a patio, a balcony, or just minimal space, sometimes it makes

0:28.0

a lot of sense to grow a bushing variety instead of a vining variety.

0:31.3

Even if you have the space to grow a vining variety, you might vine it up and actually

0:35.0

block the sun from the limited amount of growing space that you have, and so it may make more sense

0:40.6

to grow a bush variety. So that's what we're talking about today.

0:45.2

I'm going to talk about a couple of the varieties that I've chosen as well as some of the

0:50.0

variations in care for growing a bush cucumber.

0:54.0

The first question to answer is what's the real difference between the two of these?

0:58.6

Is there any difference besides their growing pattern?

1:02.4

And the answer is kind of no.

1:04.4

They, for the most part, just are different

1:07.2

in their manner of growing.

1:08.4

So Bush cucumbers will require maybe two

1:10.9

to three square feet per plant. Andining cucumbers as you know either they're

1:15.5

going to take up a ton of horizontal space if they're sprawling all over the ground

1:19.2

and if you trellis them you can get quite efficient space usage but of course they can they can block they can

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