I have got a bunch of different types of cucumbers here. I have got Boothy’s blond, Telegraph Improved, some Boston pickling cucumbers and Soyo long cucumbers.
I started these a while ago indoors and they have been hurdling outside, and I am just going to line up the edge of my raised bed.
The first ones are Telegraph Improved. Now telegraph improved cucumbers grow to be 18 inches long and I cannot wait to see it. All of these different varieties of cucumbers are of course heirloom variety cucumbers. So they are not genetically modified and they are as genetically diverse as they can be.
This next type of cucumber is called Boston pickling. Now this Boston pickling type of cucumber is again an heirloom cucumber and it is great for pickling. It grows about 7 to 8 inches long.
This other type of cucumber it is called Soyo long and its form China. This Soyo long cucumber grows to be 18 inches long.
I have a fourth type of cucumber that I am planting in this bed. This cucumber is called Boothy blond. And it comes from Maine it has been passed down from generations to generation and it is a yellow cucumber. Now this cucumber grows to be about 7 to 8 inches long and I am just going to finish up this section here.
Now there are maybe a lot of you out thee saying; “She’s planting this plant way too close together.” That is the beauty of this method. The beauty of this method is that you can plant things closer together. We live in the City. We do not have a lot of land available to us. So we have to come up with unique ways of growing our vegetables and being able to grow of large quantity of them.
So I am able to plant all of these plants closer together because using a raised bed and having the light struck on it to really enrich the soil and having a large amount of worms in here fertilizing the soil and working the soil up allows me to plant the plants this close together. And when I plant these I am planting them so that the dirt and the mulch cover the top of these few pots.
I am going to finish up this last few. I am Patti the garden girl and thanks for watching.
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