How to grow cucumbers in pots at home is the continuation of the serious of best vegetables that are easy to grow for a layman in his/her home garden. Cucumber is a wild fruit that is delicious part of human food from the thousands of years in all continents. It was grown by the people of whole world in the beginning of 18th century at large scale. Now it has been used in many delicious recipes where as its common use is as salad but people have no enough acquaintance about how to grow cucumber. Many beauticians recommend it in their beauty tips due to its vitamins and positive impacts on human skin. Cucumber belongs to the easy cultivation vegetables as you can enjoy its fruit with almost no continuous attention after plantation. Dozens of verities of cucumber are cultivated by households according to their taste and type of weather. Some of its famous kinds are Tasty green, bush pickle, fanfare, marketmore, tasty green, Hmong red, spacemaster, Parisian, AC pickling, Japanese climbing, Richmond apple, early pride, sining weet, Longfellow, salad bush, burpless and little leaf etc. Hope that at the end of this article you will get the answer of how to grow cucumbers in pots.
Growing cucumber plants in pots:
- Like tomatoes cucumber plant need full light of sun. So you are supposed to cultivate it in pots at place within your home garden where it receives sun light always or at least 4 to 6 hours per day.
- Cucumber plant is also sensitive about continuous and adequate supply of water during whole period of growth till maturity of fruits.
- A soil having pH level in-between 6.7 to 8 is best for cucumber cultivation. You should first check it by applying soil test.
- Because of its easy growth in warm atmosphere, you can use “plastic mulch” technique in which you apply dark mulch on it that will produce a green house effect and due to increase in temperature its growth rate becomes higher.
- Cucumber’s vertical cultivation brings many benefits from the perspective of growth as well as vitamins and natural power. So, modern recommended way of its cultivation in pots at home is that when vine become stronger at 10 inches and fruits appears, hang its vines in vertical shape with any support.
- While collecting data about how to grow cucumbers in pots at home it is necessary to get sufficient understanding about diseases those attacks cucumber possibly. Many diseases can attack cucumber plant in any stage of its growth. For example bacterial wilt, anthracnose, mosaic, spider mites, aphids and beetles are common and major threats to its plant.
- Variety of cucumber seeds are available in the market but best among all are hybrid seeds as they benefits in two ways, first there is no need of pollination and secondly they preserve space.
- It is best if plantation spot have a mixture of soil and compost. Their ratio many be fifty fifty or forty sixty.
- In each hole 3 to 5 seeds are sufficient but try to plant them as deep as possible.
- Temperature of soil for its better growth should in-between 65 to 75 degrees F. If climate is supporting for this level of temperature then it’s OK and if not then apply some artificial method to maintain this level such as plastic mulch method.
This information surly provide you a ample picture about how to grow cucumbers in pots, additionally it will be interesting for you to know that china is the biggest producer of cucumbers. Other countries like Iran, Turkey, Russia, United States, Ukraine, Spain, Egypt, Japan and Indonesia are also among the top ten producers of cucumber.
