About Cucumbers
Gardeners are fond of growing cucumbers because they are an easy treat that do not cost much to start. The amount of vegetables that you get from one of these plants is well worth the investment and you can grow cucumbers from seeds with little trouble.

Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Cucumbers can be started in the greenhouse easily using small seed containers and then transplanting to larger pots or to your outdoor garden as needed. If you are going to keep your cucumbers in the greenhouse over the winter you might only have time to transplant them once, so going from the starter seed containers to a much larger pot at one time might be the easiest method.

When you are starting your cucumbers you will notice that they will germinate in just a few days. Two or three days when you use a hot source and maybe just a few days longer if you are going to start cucumbers without using a direct heat source. After your cucumber plants start growing full-formed leaves you can consider it safe to transplant them into a larger pot.

As your cucumbers get larger you will notice that they will need to be staked up so that they will not hang, get bent or crushed by other plants. You will want to stake up your cucumbers so that you can watch the flowers grow to be able to cut off non vegetable producing flowers. If you have non flowering shoots growing from your cucumber plant, or from another part of the vine you should trim these back to push nutrients to the other essential areas of the plant.

Some gardeners think that October and November is the end of the growing season, but if you keep your greenhouse on the warm side and, if needed, you use grow lights, you will be successful during the winter months as well.