Easy Tips for Growing Great heirloom Cucumbers

• Heirloom cucumbers do not like acidic soil! 
• Frost tender.  Heirloom cucumbers love warm weather.
• To get an earlier heirloom cucumber crop start indoors 3-4 weeks before last frost.
• Heirloom cucumbers are thirsty!  Never let them go dry.  Heirloom cucumbers are over 95 % water.  
• Fertilize heirloom cucumbers with manures BEFORE planting.
• Cucumber beetles are "supposed" to dislike marigolds or wood ashes sprinkled at the base of  cucumber vines.

Other Heirloom Cucumber Varieties:  Boston Pickling heirloom cucumber, Early Cluster heirloom cucumber, Early Russian heirloom cucumber , Vert de Massy heirloom cucumber, Boothby's Blonde heirloom cucumber, China Long heirloom cucumber, Japanese Climbing heirloom cucumber, Lemon heirloom cucumber, Long Green Improved heirloom cucumber, Longfellow heirloom cucumber, Straight 8 heirloom cucumber, Suyo Long heirloom cucumber, West Indian Gherkin heirloom cucumber, White Wonder heirloom cucumber, black diamond heirloom cucumber, chinese yellow heirloom cucumber, crystal apple heirloom cucumber, de borbonne heirloom cucumber, delikatesse heirloom cucumber, dragons egg heirloom cucumber, edmonson heirloom cucumber, emperor Alexandra heirloom cucumber, fin di meaux heirloom cucumber, himangi heirloom cucumber and Japanese long heirloom cucumber.