Tomatoes can be finicky when it comes to watering. Too much or too little can both lead to wilting leaves, damaged fruit, and disease.We link to vendors to he
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When you plant cucumbers in your garden do you wonder how many cucumbers per plant you can expect to harvest? I know I do because I want to make sure I’ve got enough to provide months of crunchy fruits, but not so many that we’re overwhelmed. Plus, I like to make a couple of batches of pickles each summer and that means I need a generous supply of pickling cucumbers. Below I look at the different types of cucumbers and how that impacts production as well as easy strategies you can use to maximize cucumber yield.
Types of cucumbersBefore I share tips on encouraging a heavy crop of cucumbers, one of the most popular garden vegetables, it’s important to understand a bit about how the fruits are produced. Standard cucumber plants are monoecious which means the vines have separate male and female flowers. For a fruit to form, pollen must be transferred from a male flower to a female flower. It’s easy to tell the flowers apart as male blooms have a straight stem under the petals where a female flower has a tiny fruit. Monoecious cucumber plants produce far more male flowers than female flowers to ensure there is a good pollen source when the female blooms start to open.
Most garden cucumber varieties are monoecious, but some hybrid varieties are gynoecious or parthenocarpic. You may see these terms in seed catalog descriptions so it’s helpful to know what they mean. A gynoecious cucumber variety produces mostly female flowers. Some gynoecious varieties need to be pollinated to produce their fruits and the seed packet typically includes a few seeds of a monoecious variety to provide pollen. Other gyneocious varieties don’t need to be pollinated to produce fruit and yield a heavy crop of cucumbers without male flowers.
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Tomatoes can be finicky when it comes to watering. Too much or too little can both lead to wilting leaves, damaged fruit, and disease.We link to vendors to he
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