How to Grow Cucumber at Home

• The seeds of a cucumber go straight into the soil where you want it to grow.
• Add 5-8 seeds to a hole dug twice the depth of the seed.
• To get a better yield, each cucumber seeds should be planted in hills
• Cucumber seed germinates in about ten days, so keep it well watered until the little teardrop shaped leaves appear.
• This vegetable grows as a vine.
• It is recommended to either train them to grow up a fence or a support, or just allowed them to ramble on the ground.
• Like all the pumpkin family, cucumber does not like to get water on their leaves.
• When the leaves get too wet, powdery mildew will form.
• It is best to water cucumbers at the base of the plant.

Companions (do well together)
• They love the company of Beans, Maize, Peas, Radish, Sunflowers, Choko and Lettuce.
• Plant Dill, Yarrow, Lemon Balm, Chamomile and Chives to help keep the pests away and improve the soil.

Antagonists (don't do well together)
• Potato does not grow well next to cucumbers.

• Harvest the cucumber when it gets to the required length of their variety, this will bring a better yield.
• Make sure to cut the cucumber off the stem with a sharp knife.
• Tearing or tugging can damage the vegetable.
• You should leave some of the radish to go to seed where the cucumbers are growing, as the radish seed heads keep the cucumber beetles away.
• Small cucumbers can be used to make gherkins.
• Wash them, place them in clean sterilised bottles and cover with vinegar, sugar and add some peppercorn and dill seeds.
• Seal the bottle tightly and label.

• ½ cucumber
• 1 beet
• 5 carrots


• Wash all vegetables.
• Cut tops and ends off the carrots, beet and cucumber.
• Depending on the size of the opening of the juicer, prepare to cut the vegetables to fit.
• Mix juiced cucumber, beet and carrots together.
• Sip don't gulp.

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