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Cucumber Margarita
Grow your own cucumbers to add flavour to your Valentine’s cocktail, with tips from our friends at BBC Good Food Show Summer. Crisp and refreshing, we’ve got the perfect recipe to use your cucumber in for a romantic evening in.
Grow your own cucumbers
In the warmer months , St. Basil the Great is the perfect plus to your windowsill or vegetable piece , and packs fantastic flavours for summer saucer .
Read on below for top on growing basil from our friends at BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine and to find out more about a delightful one - pan lemon yellow sole formula , using your basil , from the BBC Good Food Show Summer in 2022 .
Sowing
To kickstart cucumber vine come sprouting , ensure a minimal temperature of 20 ° century . optimum spots include a glasshouse , heated up disseminator , or a sunny windowsill . apply 5 centimetre pots filled with peat - free compost , sowing seed vertically or on their face , 1 - 2 centimetre deep . Expect pullulate in 7 - 10 days , then thin out to one seedling per pot . transplant them to 9 cm pots once they sport their first set of big leaves .
For outdoor planting , wait until late May or June when frost risk diminishes . Warm the grunge by spread over with a cloche or fleece post - planting .
Caring for cucmbers
In the nursery , control regular watering and mulch grunge for moisture retentivity and weed control . Maintain humidity by damping down or misting industrial plant . Consider zone sections for enhanced humidity .
Feed florescence cucumbers weekly with high potash fertiliser . move out male flowers to prevent jaundice in fruit . snarf out develop tip for side shoot development and grownup yields . outside varieties also require copious watering but retain both male and distaff flowers for natural pollination .
For outdoor cucumbers , pinch out grow top after seven leaves and train side shoot upwards or provide them to trail . Trim flowerless gratuity once they reach seven leave of absence .
Harvest
harvest home cucumbers around 12 hebdomad after planting , pop out in midsummer . Pick regularly to advance more growth . Outdoor types yield until September , while glasshouse varieties can last into October in tender conditions . Fruit length varies by eccentric . Harvest as needed to avoid thorniness and tough skin . For good results , foot in the nerveless morning hours . habituate secateurs or a sharp tongue . Some longer varieties can be halved on the plant for later purpose .
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New year , new garden , fresh trend !
We ’re through the garden logic gate into 2023 , with a host of horticulture trends blooming throughout the country . Fromhouse plantsreaching dizzying heights of popularity , to the colour of the year ‘ Viva Magenta’,read on for our full list of trend .
To get up penny-pinching and personal with fresh garden stirring , novel plant , the latest gardening outfit and more , join us in 2023 .
Colour of the Year 2023
manus - piece by Pantone , the colour of the year has been named as ‘ Viva Magenta .
Pantone draw the colour as‘brave and fearless , and a pulsating colour whose exuberance promote a joyous and optimistic celebration , writing a new narrative . ’
Discover a human race of people of colour and odour in the stunningFloral Marquee , bursting with award - win nurseries and showing .
Sustainable gardening
Whilst your garden might seem to already be very green , it can always be greener !
Discover ways you may make horticulture more sustainable , like upcycling common item to make fashionable features . What was a pallet , hessian handbag , bits of pipework , and Sn cans , could become a planter , grow bags , water features , and wildlife home ground .
Be inspired by the BBC Gardeners ’ World Magazine newspaper column team as they ’re bring together by experts to give gratuity and advice .
Grow your own food
Looking to go from territory to supper this class ? Get brilliant advice from the National Allotment Society at the result .
Peat-free gardening
Learn about the latest peat - free compost from exhibitors who can offer face - to - face advice .
Indoor gardening
Foliage does n’t just belong outside – bring nature indoors and be enliven by the Houseplant Hub .
Mindful gardening
Beautiful Borders returns with this year ’s theme ‘ My Garden Escape ’ to give you outer space savvy thought .
Gardening on a budget
break different ways you may get your garden bloom under a tighter budget , with advice from expert gardener .
Fermented foods
natter the BBC Good Food Summer Show ( with free debut with your ticket ! ) and let out the previous gastronome trends .
Feeling enliven ? see out what else is pass at BBC Gardeners ’ World Live this June !
