The Cucumber Episode

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Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Once the warmth of summer comes on, cucumbers are a favorite addition to summer salads and sandwiches. Growing cucumbers at home is surprisingly easy, and you’ll find that the ones you grow are far superior to anything you can buy at the store.

Whether used to make pickles, eaten fresh from the garden, or used for their juice, cucumber is a great source of vitamins and micronutrients. They’re packed with water and fiber, two things essential to our health. And they’re low-calorie, making them a favorite food of the diet-conscious.

Let’s not forget that the plants themselves are a bright green and will enliven your garden space with a mat of dense, fat leaves. Hiding within those vines or bushes can be an abundance of delicious food if you just follow this guide!

Learn More: Growing Cucumbers: The Ultimate Guide To Cucumis Sativus

Keep Growing,

Kevin

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0:00.0	What's up everyone? Welcome back to the show. A little bit of a baseball
0:06.2	announcement there. And we're stepping up to the plate,
0:09.4	Epic gardening with the podcast.
0:12.7	All right, I am getting a little goofy.
0:14.9	I will admit I've had some coffee here.
0:17.3	We are talking today about cucumbers,
0:20.1	and it's going to be a pretty big episode honestly.
0:23.2	cucumbers are obviously a fruiting vegetable.
0:27.0	They produce that beautiful fruit that we love to eat and there are so many different varieties
0:31.2	and techniques that this might run a little longer than your average
0:35.0	epic gardening episode.
0:37.6	So first let's talk about it.
0:39.9	What is the humble cucumber and why would we want to grow it and then how do we grow it right?
0:46.4	So here's some quick care.
0:48.1	The scientific name is Kirkhumous sativis and hopefully I said that right.
0:52.4	We all know I'm not good at Latin
0:54.4	germination time 7 to 14 days usually pretty easy to germinate days to
0:59.7	harvest really depends on the variety here so as short as 40 days and as long as
1:05.0	85 days provided you've given them good conditions and what are those good
1:08.8	conditions it's a full sun loving plant remember we are producing a lot of vegetation which is then used
1:14.6	to produce these beautiful fruits. It needs a lot of sun. Water, consistent in
1:20.5	even watering around an inch a week minimum it likes spring and summer temps so 90
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