Get the Hot Water and Towels at the Ready!

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Re: Get the Hot Water and Towels at the Ready!
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2013, 22:23 »
I think your miniature whites are quite a long vined variety so will scramble over the ground, but it will save you space and keep the fruits clean and relatively pest free if you let them scramble up something. They should be fine in large pots, so long as they are filled with good quality compost. Also you could bury the pots, that way the roots won't get anywhere near as hot and the pots won't lose water so quickly. Cucumbers do not like drying out at all.
You do need to feed them but I would use a half measures of tomato feed once a week and make some nitrogen feed by steeping some nettles in water somewhere out of the way, and after a few weeks dilute some in water till its the colour of weak tea and feed that once a weak also.
They will repay you with many little cukes.

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Re: Get the Hot Water and Towels at the Ready!
« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2013, 19:29 »
Thank you so on much Totty.  We had a bucket of nettle tea on plot but it went missing, I hope it gave the person a shock when they lifted the lid  :lol: I'll get on and make some more and give my cukes tomato feed in the meantime.  I'm going to keep the cukes at home so I can keep them well watered - I can't always get to the plot everyday.  Thanks again for the advice.  Much appreciated x



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