Wish I could get a cucumber this year. Since mine started flowering we have had three to five ninety degree days every week. I did pick my first tomato today.😊
You are my go to guy for all of my gardening tips! I retired from my job 2 years ago and have been investing my summers in my yard and garden. I’m learning so much from you! Thank you!!
💥Luke the numerous educational vids are "much appreciated". The newly incorporated quips are a blast! ❤😂 Please consider keeping the comical zings as part of your new format. It was a risk - a risk that adds liveliness, and simply works for you, Luke 😎🤣
This was such a an informative and hilarious video. 😂 I love all of your "as bitter as..." comparisons! I once missed a cucumber that got mature enough to save seed, and I decided to taste it, not expecting much. It was surprisingly tangy and melon like. Baby Persian was the variety.
Thank u for this very thorough explanation. No one broke it down like this. I started getting bitter ones, yellowing so early on the vine, but wasn't big in size. This alarmed me. But like u said, it was 2 heatwave weeks. I was watering more and more as the heat came, but the lack of shade for the ones vining up the trellis, caused them to die. Smh. Now since the temp dropped to the 80s and rained every other day, I got big Boston pickling cucumber that aren't even yellow and not bitter. 😮it was such a contrast that I had to come online to see where I'm messing up. At 1st I thought it was nutrient problem, but clearly not because only after the drop in temp with the same feeding and extra water made great cucumbers. 😂just when u think u know, u don't. LOL, the love of gardening.
I live in a "split season" southern climate in Virginia. Honestly, I think I live as far north as you can get and still split your seasons. I have 2 varieties a few tricks I use to grow cucumbers all spring summer and fall without bitterness. I grow Silver Slicer and Alpha Beit on a partially shaded trellis. It only gets sun for about 4 hours in the late morning and that is plenty of sunlight because we have such humid swampy summers. I have a rotation that starts in mid-spring when I plant out my traditional varieties (Boston, National) and I leave gaps between the plants which are filled in late spring with the heat tolerant Silvers and AB's... pulling out the spring crop before they start crying for help. Then they get me through the summer and then come mid-august I switch back to Nationals and Boston. Or... if I have enough pickles I will try for a fall run of Cantaloupe or butternut on the trellis. Because I am in a 7b/8... and I don't get my first frost until late October to early November, I still have time for early varieties of squash and melons. Last year I did a late plant out of Crimson Sweet Watermelon but the chickens got loose.
Years ago I had grown cantaloupe here in mi it looked beautiful and couldn’t wait to try it finally It was ripe and oh so bitter😭. Did a search and found epsom salt is a sweetener of melons. Watered mine with a tablespoon per gallon no more bitterness also worked on my sisters cucumbers cheap and very effective. Hope you give it a try. Really enjoy your channel Luke good to have someone in your same zone and climate.
Great info, thank you so much! I'm in TN with 90+ degrees for the last 6 weeks and hardly any rain. Raised bed Cucumbers are stunted and deformed. Water regularly but nothing seems to help. Disappointing for sure.
If you cut the ends, swap the end pieces and rub in a circular motion a milky white substance will appear. Rinse repeat. Ever since I started doing this I haven't had a bitter cuke. In fact yesterday I had a real prickly one and it wasn't bitter. Worth a try
My great grandpa always believed you needed to harvest anything first thing in the morning. Something to do with the heat of the day. Apparently, it is very important for herbs
So, the last 2 or 3 nights we had huge rain, tonight and tomorrow night forecast as well (sw Michigan). Is that simply too much water? Also yesterday i was sick and couldn't go out to the garden. In that time, two pickling cukes and a crookneck squash got bigger than i would have liked. The other day they were fine, still very small. But inside of 48 hours, they grew exponentially! Crazy.
Did you have alot of lightning? I always notice huge growth afterwards. Read a interesting article on the remnants of the hurricane when we got all that rain. It basically said the rain from the system was different. It came from Africa through the Atlantic, through the gulf all the way to Michigan! It may be like miracle grow. I think the article was from MLive ? Interesting. Stay safe tonight hear more storms 🙏
I have been researching and asking about this issue for the past two months. My cucumbers tasted so wonderful this spring, but for the past month seemed to be B I T T E R. Now I know why - thank you, thank you, thank you for your knowledge. I am in zone 7b/8a in MidWest hot/dry Texas.
Unbelievable that you are not getting bit by mosquitoes. There’s no way I could be in the garden without full coverage right now. Sometimes it’s just the ends that are bitter. Learned a lesson to taste test before adding to recipes. Thx for all the cuke tips.
Great video, Luke! Question... I'm growing English cucs for the first time this year. First picking, my hubby thought they tasted "musty". I didn't notice until he said something. They look great though. Did I pick them too early?
I loved this video and found it really helpful but I wish you would change your settings so we could save these videos. I won't remember this next year.
We have to water our plants every day. We wait 2 days they would be cooked. 105° and 6% humidity. But wow do they produce. I plant in April and don't get cucumbers until end of july.
I have cucumbers that look small like there baby's but have yellow on top and I'm new with growing them not knowing if it is because to much rain or if I'm having problems with pill bugs like what killed my pepper plants
After I started experimenting with other cucumber varieties I have quit growing most green cucumbers. I just didn't like them anymore because they are biter. My favorite are the white mild tasting dragonball cucumbers. They are never bitter..sweeter cucumber. I think Im a picky veggie grower and want to experience something new.
That bitter soap you speak of must be “Lifebuoy”- the punishment of choice by Ralphie’s mom in the movie A Christmas Story when Ralphie said “Ohhhh F*dge” 😂
You never fail to deliver new material👍🌱 Personally, owed to the passage of time, and the number of videos, it boggles my tiny brain how you come up with fresh content🤤 Now, get your best suit readied for the day Kevin Jonas takes you to court😉😂
Since cucumbers need a lot of water, are they prime candidate for hydroponic growing? I have been considering setting up a hydroponic system. Can you suggest other plants that could thrive in this for of growing? Thank you.
YES!!! That's exactly her name (Mary Margaret Schimweg) so many people have recommended highly about her😊 and am just starting with her Brisbane Australia🇭🇲
Man just out there manhandling cucumber leaves and stems without any worries in the world. My hands and arms are itching right now just thinking about it! (Also thank you for this video! My cucumber is kind of on its last legs, and at this point they keep growing on the ground and pill bugs get to half of them. But I think I might try a real baby one just to experience it!)
Diplomacy seems to have exited 'video world'. I freely shared a terrific baked cucumber recipe and it got deleted by Mr. Marion or by TH-cam. If I was a video host, I'd give the 'comment' contributor a chance to delete it voluntarily after explaining what was considered inappropriate or offensive. At least the, it would be less likely that a repeat of the 'offense' would occur.
Someone please help me! For some reason my cucumbers are only getting about an inch and a half long turning soft and brown and then that's it. I keep picking them off and it's just repeating the process. 🤦♀️🤷♀️🥺
ThE 6th REASON your cucumbers are bitter is that you aren't growing a burpless variety. Choose burpless variaties if you want mild sweeter tasting cucumbers with thinner skins and fewer seeds. That is what I do.
To help with bitterness I tell my cucumbers that they are appreciated and loved.
😍
😂
I talk to my plants every day and tell them how perfect they are ... and thank them.
Who else loves the fact that Luke just pulls out cucumbers from his pocket? Lol
Hahaha
I thought he was just happy to see us😁
You know its going to be a good day when you wake up, open youtube, and you're the first to see a new MIGardener video.
It's a good day if you wake up. Make it a great day!
Wish I could get a cucumber this year. Since mine started flowering we have had three to five ninety degree days every week. I did pick my first tomato today.😊
Bet your high school teacher is regretting her choice of words now!
Teacher!? lol
My cucumbers are great. Nothing better than a fresh cucumber raw or in salad. Always love learning different ways to garden from MiGardener.
A+ on all the creative “more bitter than” comparisons!
You are my go to guy for all of my gardening tips!
I retired from my job 2 years ago and have been investing my summers in my yard and garden. I’m learning so much from you! Thank you!!
Glow up😂 I just tore all of mine out and started over. They didn’t get bitter, but they looked like they needed the glow up😂
Wow a D- for wanting to be a gardener. I dont know of a more detailed an helpful gardener then you Luke!! Keep it up!
💥Luke the numerous educational vids are "much appreciated". The newly incorporated quips are a blast! ❤😂 Please consider keeping the comical zings as part of your new format. It was a risk - a risk that adds liveliness, and simply works for you, Luke 😎🤣
Thanks so much. I am first time growing cucumber. Was worried why they were bitter. Thanks for posting this video just in time.
This was such a an informative and hilarious video. 😂 I love all of your "as bitter as..." comparisons!
I once missed a cucumber that got mature enough to save seed, and I decided to taste it, not expecting much. It was surprisingly tangy and melon like. Baby Persian was the variety.
Wow! Learned so much... the more I garden the more I realize how much I still need to learn 😅
It's great to see what you've shared. Very interesting to keep watching. Best wishes to you 💗💗👍👍👍👍
These types of videos are great! Very informative
Thank u for this very thorough explanation. No one broke it down like this. I started getting bitter ones, yellowing so early on the vine, but wasn't big in size. This alarmed me. But like u said, it was 2 heatwave weeks. I was watering more and more as the heat came, but the lack of shade for the ones vining up the trellis, caused them to die. Smh. Now since the temp dropped to the 80s and rained every other day, I got big Boston pickling cucumber that aren't even yellow and not bitter. 😮it was such a contrast that I had to come online to see where I'm messing up. At 1st I thought it was nutrient problem, but clearly not because only after the drop in temp with the same feeding and extra water made great cucumbers. 😂just when u think u know, u don't. LOL, the love of gardening.
"Look at me now," Luke this could be on a coffee cup or shirt. Of course, it would need to have migardener logo on it.
❤😊 thank you for sharing!!!!
Ok
I live in a "split season" southern climate in Virginia. Honestly, I think I live as far north as you can get and still split your seasons. I have 2 varieties a few tricks I use to grow cucumbers all spring summer and fall without bitterness. I grow Silver Slicer and Alpha Beit on a partially shaded trellis. It only gets sun for about 4 hours in the late morning and that is plenty of sunlight because we have such humid swampy summers. I have a rotation that starts in mid-spring when I plant out my traditional varieties (Boston, National) and I leave gaps between the plants which are filled in late spring with the heat tolerant Silvers and AB's... pulling out the spring crop before they start crying for help. Then they get me through the summer and then come mid-august I switch back to Nationals and Boston. Or... if I have enough pickles I will try for a fall run of Cantaloupe or butternut on the trellis. Because I am in a 7b/8... and I don't get my first frost until late October to early November, I still have time for early varieties of squash and melons. Last year I did a late plant out of Crimson Sweet Watermelon but the chickens got loose.
I'm growing Beit Alpha for the first time this year, how do I keep them from going soft as soon as I bring them in?
Years ago I had grown cantaloupe here in mi it looked beautiful and couldn’t wait to try it finally
It was ripe and oh so bitter😭. Did a search and found epsom salt is a sweetener of melons. Watered mine with a tablespoon per gallon no more bitterness also worked on my sisters cucumbers cheap and very effective. Hope you give it a try. Really enjoy your channel Luke good to have someone in your same zone and climate.
Thank u. I will try this
Your Marketmore and Tendergreen cucumbers are doing so well in my garden! They are never bitter. Great varieties!
I was told by some old gardener that you should pick them in the morning and they will be sweeter, is there any truth to that?
They would have a higher water content for sure
Thank you, Luke. 😊
Omg hilarious Luke, you’re so feisty in this one! Too funny. 😂
Thank you for the info!Very helpful 🎉
Great info, thank you so much! I'm in TN with 90+ degrees for the last 6 weeks and hardly any rain. Raised bed Cucumbers are stunted and deformed. Water regularly but nothing seems to help. Disappointing for sure.
If you cut the ends, swap the end pieces and rub in a circular motion a milky white substance will appear. Rinse repeat. Ever since I started doing this I haven't had a bitter cuke. In fact yesterday I had a real prickly one and it wasn't bitter. Worth a try
I think I love you!
I was going to suggest this too. I'm glad someone else knows this trick as well!
I was going to post this, too. Saves a lot of hot weather cukes!
Good advice in life as well. Beware of bitterness.
Thank you! Can’t wait to try cucumbers again
Luke u had me rolling!!😂😂😂
My great grandpa always believed you needed to harvest anything first thing in the morning. Something to do with the heat of the day. Apparently, it is very important for herbs
Watching this while munching on the first cucumber from the garden this season. Not going to make the same mistakes as last year and harvest too late!
I think this is your best video yet ❤
So, the last 2 or 3 nights we had huge rain, tonight and tomorrow night forecast as well (sw Michigan). Is that simply too much water? Also yesterday i was sick and couldn't go out to the garden. In that time, two pickling cukes and a crookneck squash got bigger than i would have liked. The other day they were fine, still very small. But inside of 48 hours, they grew exponentially! Crazy.
Did you have alot of lightning? I always notice huge growth afterwards. Read a interesting article on the remnants of the hurricane when we got all that rain. It basically said the rain from the system was different. It came from Africa through the Atlantic, through the gulf all the way to Michigan! It may be like miracle grow. I think the article was from MLive ? Interesting. Stay safe tonight hear more storms 🙏
Thank you for the advice.
I’ve started using kaolin clay spray on my plants to protect from sun and pests. It’s working great.
Thanks for this vid. I laughed as you did the funny comparisons
I have been researching and asking about this issue for the past two months. My cucumbers tasted so wonderful this spring, but for the past month seemed to be B I T T E R. Now I know why - thank you, thank you, thank you for your knowledge. I am in zone 7b/8a in MidWest hot/dry Texas.
So... old age and stress makes one bitter? Makes sense
😂😂😂👌🏾
Can't wait to see what I get. The first one got away from me a bit. Looked like a baby seal (Spacemaster 80). Thick skin but not bitter or seedy.
😂 more bitter than the trolls that I block! Giggle
😂😂
Haha. So funny your analogies!!
Unbelievable that you are not getting bit by mosquitoes. There’s no way I could be in the garden without full coverage right now. Sometimes it’s just the ends that are bitter. Learned a lesson to taste test before adding to recipes.
Thx for all the cuke tips.
Is that a cucumber in your pocket or are you just a really happy gardener?
😳🫢😂
I don't mind some bitterness because mixed in a tomato salad, it's not bad at all.
Thank You!
Great video, Luke! Question... I'm growing English cucs for the first time this year. First picking, my hubby thought they tasted "musty". I didn't notice until he said something. They look great though. Did I pick them too early?
What do teachers know anyway? Good work doing what's best for you, Luke!
Luke, you’re hilarious! I love all the bitterness! Haha
I loved this video and found it really helpful but I wish you would change your settings so we could save these videos. I won't remember this next year.
I have the option to save or download this video.
Hey could you add the links to the videos you mention in the description please? Love your videos ❤
We have to water our plants every day. We wait 2 days they would be cooked. 105° and 6% humidity. But wow do they produce. I plant in April and don't get cucumbers until end of july.
Beautiful sharing🎁🌹
I have cucumbers that look small like there baby's but have yellow on top and I'm new with growing them not knowing if it is because to much rain or if I'm having problems with pill bugs like what killed my pepper plants
I wouldn’t think you had trolls 👿
The onions are looking good Luke.
That’s why teachers are teachers they haven’t yet found a career.😊
Interesting
After I started experimenting with other cucumber varieties I have quit growing most green cucumbers. I just didn't like them anymore because they are biter. My favorite are the white mild tasting dragonball cucumbers. They are never bitter..sweeter cucumber. I think Im a picky veggie grower and want to experience something new.
Try English type also. Marketmore is another good cuke.
That bitter soap you speak of must be “Lifebuoy”- the punishment of choice by Ralphie’s mom in the movie A Christmas Story when Ralphie said “Ohhhh F*dge” 😂
Mine grew tall and flowered but no fruit, the critters just took down half my stems today 😢
You never fail to deliver new material👍🌱 Personally, owed to the passage of time, and the number of videos, it boggles my tiny brain how you come up with fresh content🤤
Now, get your best suit readied for the day Kevin Jonas takes you to court😉😂
Since cucumbers need a lot of water, are they prime candidate for hydroponic growing? I have been considering setting up a hydroponic system. Can you suggest other plants that could thrive in this for of growing? Thank you.
When I think of bitterness , is this same reason why some celery is bitter .
Thx
Hey bud, my pickles are turning into fuzzy cotton balls. What do I do?
Just had a garden cuke this morning
I'm favoured, $60k every week! I can now give back to the locals in my community and also support God's work and the church. God bless America.
Excuse me for real?, how is that possible I have struggling financially, how was that possible?
Mrs Mary Margaret Schimweg is lord sent!!!
I always appreciate God for his kindness upon my life
YES!!! That's exactly her name (Mary Margaret Schimweg) so many people have recommended highly about her😊 and am just starting with her Brisbane Australia🇭🇲
Same here, with my current portfolio made from my investments with my personal financial advisor (Mary Margaret Schimweg) I totally agree with you
"more bitter than the trolls that I blocked" HAHAHAHAHAHA LOVE IT!!!
So does this mean you really can't cut off the tip of a cucumber off and rub it on itself and coax the bitter out?
Love your bitter jokes!
The jokes, love 'em.
You didn’t mention how pollination affects them and if removing the male flowers would improve the bitterness
Man just out there manhandling cucumber leaves and stems without any worries in the world. My hands and arms are itching right now just thinking about it!
(Also thank you for this video! My cucumber is kind of on its last legs, and at this point they keep growing on the ground and pill bugs get to half of them. But I think I might try a real baby one just to experience it!)
those were apt bitter comparisons ngl👏
We make tzatziki from the ones that get too big 😂
You’re killing me over here 😂
Hello dear friend Nice video I like Cucumber
Diplomacy seems to have exited 'video world'.
I freely shared a terrific baked cucumber recipe and it got deleted by Mr. Marion or by TH-cam. If I was a video host, I'd give the 'comment' contributor a chance to delete it voluntarily after explaining what was considered inappropriate or offensive. At least the, it would be less likely that a repeat of the 'offense' would occur.
Great advice! I needed this advice seeing as how my cucumbers are more bitter than Taylor Swift after Katy Perry stole her dancer!
👍❤️ thank you 🥒😊
Someone please help me! For some reason my cucumbers are only getting about an inch and a half long turning soft and brown and then that's it. I keep picking them off and it's just repeating the process. 🤦♀️🤷♀️🥺
My yellow squash HAD lots of spines... but that didnt deter the villainous squash bugs this year.. TWENTY PLANTS DEAD
Cucmbers are
feelin' fine.
I planted 4 packs of cucumber seeds, and nothing came up.
Luke was getting something off his chest today!!!!🤪🤣😂😍
Only slightly haha
🌿👍
😂 Poor Kevin
Hmmm… Maybe a little birdie will stop trying to eat my cucumbers if I let them get bitter 😂❤
I think I'm just bitter off not trying to have a garden. My gardens just don't follow the rules.
Did they tell you, that you have slavic blood (too)? :) Polish, I believe.
Hmmm, I divorced my first wife for all these reasons. Is this really about cucumbers?
The troll comment! 🧌💥🏆😆
ThE 6th REASON your cucumbers are bitter is that you aren't growing a burpless variety. Choose burpless variaties if you want mild sweeter tasting cucumbers with thinner skins and fewer seeds. That is what I do.
No you didn't lol 😂😂😂
More bitter than the trolls I've blocked 😂💙👏
More bitter than the trolls that I blocked. 😆