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Encyclopedia Botanica Podcast, Episode 45: Cucumbers with Jeanne Nolan

May 19, 2017 hilary dahl
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We’re excited to have Jeanne Nolan on the podcast today to talk with us about growing cucumbers. Jeanne is based in Chicago and has been growing food organically for over twenty-five years. Among other garden-related achievements, she is the founder of The Organic Gardener - you can find them online to read much more about Jeanne's cool past, including living and working for 17 years on communal farms across the country, as well as lots of inspiring garden photos. Jeanne is also the author of the well-loved garden memoir From the Ground Up.

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SHOW NOTES:

In this episode, we discuss:

  • When and how to plant cucumbers

  • Trellising techniques

  • Succession planting cucumbers

  • Harvesting cucumbers

  • Jeanne’s favorite cucumber varieties

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Important Take-aways:

  • Cucumber can be direct seeded or plant from transplants. If growing from a transplant, keep in mind that the roots do not like to be disturbed at all so it needs to be transplanted very gently.

  • Cucumbers can be left to sprawl in the garden, but to keep things tidy, ease of harvesting, and space optimization, we recommend trellising them. If using a cage to trellis, plant 2-3 cucumbers per cage. Jeanne recommends using a Texas Tomato Cage, which folds away for easy storage!

  • If you're having a hard time training the vines on your trellis, Jeanne recommends using plant velcro to help steer your vines in the right direction. 

  • Cucumbers can be succession planted for an extended harvest. If you do plan to succession plant your cucumbers, you’ll want to have designated areas for each of the plantings, as their timing will overlap in the garden.

  • Harvest cucumbers when they are on the smaller side. Like most fruiting crops, harvesting often will extend your crops fruiting period.

  • Powdery mildew is common on cucumbers. Organic anti-fungal sprays (like our Baking Soda Spray) will help keep powdery mildew at bay. 

  • Jeanne’s favorite cucumber varieties:

    • "Excelsior" pickling cucumber 

    • "Diva" seedless cucumber from Johnny's Selected Seeds

    • Suyo Long from Johnny's Selected Seeds

    • "Marketmore 76" traditional cucumber from High Mowing Seeds (variety in header photo)

    • "Salt & Pepper" white cucumber from Johnny's Selected Seeds


Featured Guest: 

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Jeanne Nolan
The Organic Gardener, Chicago, Illinois

Jeanne grew up in Winnetka, Illinois and left in 1987 to live on a communal farm for the next seventeen years of her life. Upon her 2004 return to Chicago, she planted a vegetable garden in her parents’ backyard. Its success reaffirmed her belief that she could make an impact in the world by helping people experience the benefits of growing their own food.

In 2005, Jeanne began working with Chicago’s Green City Market. On their behalf, she designed, installed, and today maintains The Edible Gardens, a 5,000 square-foot educational children’s garden at the Lincoln Park Zoo Farm-in-the-Zoo. That same year, Jeanne founded The Organic Gardener, the ultimate expression of her life experience, beliefs, and skills.

Ground up

Jeanne regularly teaches about growing food on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, and has been featured in Chicago Tribune, Food & Wine, Woman’s Day, and other national publications. In 2013, Random House published her book, From the Ground Up, called “one of the most intelligent, surprising, and impressive garden memoirs” by The New York Times. She lives with her husband, Verd, and two daughters on a little farm in Northbrook, Illinois.


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Hilary Dahl
Hilary Dahl

Hilary Dahl is a co-owner of Seattle Urban Farm Company and host of the Encyclopedia Botanica podcast. Since 2010 Hilary Dahl has been helping beginning and experienced growers create beautiful and productive gardens. She has the unique experience of working in on a wide range of projects, from small backyard garden plots to multi-acre vegetable farms. She also works in her own garden every day after work. Hilary is also the creator of our podcast, the Encyclopedia Botanica, which she started as a way to share effective and efficient garden management techniques, and as a way to spread her love of growing food and flowers!

Colin McCrate
Colin McCrate

Colin McCrate has been growing food organically for over 25 years. He worked on a variety of small farms in the Midwest before moving to the west coast in 2003 to teach garden-based environmental education. He founded the Seattle Urban Farm Company in 2007 with the goal of applying years of horticultural and agricultural expertise to help aspiring growers get projects off the ground or more accurately; in the ground.

Since starting Seattle Urban Farm Co in 2007, he has helped guide hundreds of urban farmers through the design, construction and management of their own edible landscape. Colin is the author of three books; Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard(Mountaineers Books, 2012) and Grow More Food (Storey Publishing, 2022); and is a garden writer for the Seattle Times.

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