Growing Cucumbers from Seed to Harvest - Plus Backyard Harvest Collection Tips

Cucumbers are so yummy, so we decided to grow some in our backyard garden.  They are super easy to grow, check out how below, plus tips and easy care instructions.

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Check out the video below to see how to plant and harvest your own cucumbers!

I started with Marketmore 76' Cucumber seeds, I love the flavor these cucumbers, plus the skin is eatable when it is young and harvest at the right time.  You can see the instructions on the package, but to recap make sure to plant these after any idea of frost.  For Texas I plant mine around March to April, as the plant loves a warmer weather not cold, so it grows a ton faster when the weather is nice and warm and sunny.  A couple of seeds in a mound next to a trellis, chicken wire or tomato cage.  Make sure to plant your mounds at least 2 feet apart.

Cucumbers love to vine up something, so a chicken wire, wood trellis, or tomato cage works.  They have little tendrils you can see in the picture that help with grow up.   You can train them to grow up by weaving the plant in and out of the trellis as it gets bigger.  The flowers are what produce the vegetable, to make sure not to damage them to you get a nice harvest!  You can see a little cucumber in this picture below with the flower still attached at end.

Now it is time to harvest, light twist or use some scissors to cut off your cucumber.  I like to pick mine with they are a bit on the smaller end so it is tender and not bitter.  We eat it with the skin still on, so I pick it when it no longer feels like it had any spines on the skin.

I used my Defelcto caddy to help gather my harvest.  I pulled the lids of off the top of each section to make it easier to gather my harvest.  Don't worry the lids go right back on when you want to replace them.

After I picked my cucumber I harvested a few other veggies in my backyard garden.  The Deflecto caddy made it really easy to pick my fruits, veggies, and herbs and keep everything separate since it has 4 sections.

Best part if this just one of my harvests, I get to do this at lest once a week during the peak early summer growing season in Texas.  

Yummy green beans, peaches, figs, tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, rosemary, sage, mint, and parsley were in the harvest for today!

What will you grow in your backyard ?

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Tips on Planting New Potatoes in Raised Garden Beds

I love potatoes, they really go with anything.  They are yummy mashed, boiled, friend, roasted, and they might be my favorite food!  So on top of all that, they are so easy to grow!! Here are my tips for planting and harvesting red new potatoes.

Here is a detailed video from plaiting to harvest for these red new potatoes.

I started with a few potatoes from the last batch I harvested.  I think that is the best part of the whole potatoes growing process, use what is left over.  I keep them in a box and let them start growing a bit before planting.

Plant the potatoes starters in a mound of soil and let them grow!  make sure to give enough dirt in depth since the potatoes grows in the ground.  the deeper you give the plant to grow the better.  In about a month or so you will see a little plant shoot up!

Give it a little bit longer, about another 1-2 months and the plant gets even bigger!

You know it is time to harvest when the plant looks dead.  Use your hands or a small shovel to dig up the potatoes.

Wash them and enjoy!

Do you like potatoes?

Supplies Used

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No Sew Felt Carrot Treat Bags Plus Mini Carrot Embellishments & Rainbow Carrots from my Garden

I love spring and all the fun colors and smells that come with the fruits and veggies that are starting to blossom.  One of my favorites is the carrots!  This inspired me to make some felt carrots treat bags that are fun for spring and even Easter!!

Here is a video on now easy and fun it is to make these cute carrots treat bags on the Kunin Felt channel.

There are some super simple supplies you need for this treat bag.  

Kunin Corduroy Felt in Orange and Pirate Green

Glue

Pinking Shears

White Ric Rac

Paper

Pins

You can fill these fun treat bags with candies, other fun treats, or even stuff them with cotton for a cute plush carrot!!  You can also make them any size you wish just make the triangle the size of the carrot you want.

The carrots that inspired me to make these cute little bags came from my garden.  I planted the carrots back in October and they did amazing over the winter and are ready for harvest.  About a month ago I thinned out the little carrots, but they were big enough to eat too.

I let them grow a bit more and they were ready to harvest about a month later.  They are so sweet and crisp.  I actually still have a few let to pull, saving those for dinner this week!

Here is a video on how to plant, thin, and harvest rainbow carrots in a raised bed.

Do you like to do any gardening?

So back to the felt, I had a little left over from the treat bags so I thought why not make some little carrots perfect for scrapbooking, cardmaking, or planners.  I just make the same type of carrots but much smaller and only on one side.

Here is the video on how to make these fun little carrots!

What veggie would you make out of felt?

Supplies Used

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