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Programs

School Garden Program
Family Garden Project
Garden Starter Kit
Annuual Flowers
Perennial Flowers
Herbs
Vegetables
Glossery of Terms
Schoolyard Nature Network
Vegetable Planting Guide
Where to put the Garden
Planting a Home Garden
Planting & Harvest Times
Harvesting & Storing
If you really want to sit down and read for a while, you will certainly learn something from this 48 page report from the University of Kentucky
 
Family Garden Project  - The Gardens
Preparation & Care Vegetables Herbs Flowers Bushes & Trees

Growing
Plant: 5/1-8/15*
Depth:*
Width: rambling
Germinate: *
Mature: *
 
Cucumber Pests
 
 Pickle Worm

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Spreads bacteria wilt
Life Cycle
Advanced facts
Close up of damage in stem
Adult
Cucumber Beetle:   In the spring the beetles inoculate the pathogen into the plant tissues as they feed and cause bacterial wilt of the infected plant.
Striped Cucumber Beetle

Spotted Cucumber Beetle
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Activities
 
Cucumber in a bottle

Coloring page       

Nutrition Facts

 

 
Lemon Cucumber
This yellow, rounded American heirloom produces large quantities of crisp, sweet, easily digested fruits. Grows 6-8 feet and produces 3-4 inch fruits continuously until frost. (65 days)

Bush Cucumber1

 
Recipes

Cucumber & Onion Salad
Bread & Butter Pickles
Cucumber Sandwich Bar (cookie/shape cutters, varieties of bread, thin slices of cucumbers, chopped chives, selection of spreads (cream cheese with chopped herbs, homemade sweet mustard, etc.), thinly sliced small yellow & red tomatoes, etc.  Class participates in preparation.  Invite another class to join your class in the garden.  Have a table set up and let everyone create their own cucumber sandwich. 

Cucumber, Armenian - Fruits have mild, light green, heavily ribbed skin that is not bitter and needs no peeling.  Cucumbers grow 2-3' long, but are best eaten when less than 2 1/2 " across.  Harvest 70 days.  7-14 days

 

 
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."  Robert Louis Stevenson
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