How to Plant and Grow Cucumbers

Start cucumbers indoors, in seed starting pots full of potting mix, two weeks before you can transplant to the garden outside. Set the seeds on the pot edges to minimize the risk that they will rot. Make sure the soil is warm enough.

Transplant into the garden when all danger of frost has passed and the soil is warm enough. Prepare a sheltered, sunny spot and sow the seeds 2 to 3 feet apart, in rows spaced at 5 to 6 feet. Sow the seeds at a depth of 1 inch.

Keep weeds down around plants as they grow. Mulch to retain moisture. Construct a trellis, or framework of strings and wires as a support for climbing plants.

Regular harvesting encourage the plants to produce new cucumbers. Remove vegetable before they start to turn yellow -- if you do not remove the yellow cucumbers they will weaken the rest of the crop.