Bonnie Plants' biodegradable peat pots ... and 'Sweet Slice', a burpless type of cucumber with mild, thin-skinned 10- to 12-inch-long fruit. A burpless type means the fruit is low in the compound ...

Once your cucumber plants start to vine and produce flowers ... Slicing: Slicing varieties, like Burpless and Armenian cucumbers, are longer, thinner, and have less firm skin than pickling ...

"Burpless" cucumbers generally are of the slicer category and are bred to be relatively seedless, tend to be sweeter and have a thinner skin than other varieties of cucumber. These are supposedly ...

Most cucumber plants contain a bitter compound called cucurbitacin ... So, some seed companies called their bitter-free cukes “burpless.” Newer cultivars with thinner skin also tend to be less bitter.

Radishes make excellent cucumber companion plants as they can help deter the dreaded cucumber beetle. For every cucumber planted, sow a few radish seeds at the base. Do not harvest them.

You can leave burpless-type cucumbers on the vine a bit ... mild flavor of the long Japanese cucumber. Pick these when they are 12 to 18” long. Their flavor remains mild and the skin is easy ...

These plants love the heat ... In seed catalogs, they often are called “burpless” or “seedless.” So if you do want to plant only a single cucumber, or only have space for just one ...

Cucumber plants that looked productive can be quickly ... There are several resistant varieties, and non-bitter or burpless cucumbers are non-preferred by cucumber beetles, so they are naturally ...

Companion planting, the strategic placement of certain plants together for mutual benefit, is a time-honored technique that can take all of your crops—including your cucumber harvest—to new ...

Keeping your cucumber plants trimmed also creates more space for other surrounding plants in your garden to grow. Another important reason to prune is to help control diseases. If your cucumber ...

Trellising vining cucumbers with these tips helps you grow straighter cukes, keep plants healthier, and have easier harvests.