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Vegetable gardening: Growing Cucumbers by Sowing and germinating Seeds

Growing cucumbers by sowing seeds would appear straightforward at face value but this tropical food crop from India requires minimum temperatures for it to both germinate and then grow. Keep the seeds to cold and they won’t germinate, keep the young plants too cold and they will go into shock and refuse to grow! So in this video English Horticulturists Simon and Lorna explain in detail the timings and techniques required to grow cucumbers from seed successfully as well as avoiding the pitfalls of sowing too early or planting out when it is till too cold. If you would like to see more content like this then check out our other videos on our YouTube channel ‘Waling Talking Gardeners’. It is absolutely free to subscribe to ad you can unsubscribe instantly at any time. If you would like to be notified when we publish a new video then click onto the notification bell icon.

Review - Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy

St. Martin’s Griffin, 541p, Isbn-0312385242 In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today’s hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher’s ”Curses” Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs’ “Fairy Gifts,” a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr’s “Guns for the Dead,” the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black’s “Noble Rot,” a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own. Urban Fantasy is one of my favorite genres, even though I arrived late to it. Too late, by the looks of this book. If you’re a fan of any of the no-doubt wonderful authors who’ve contributed a story to this anthology, then you’re going to LOVE this book. However if, l