Cucumbers Made a Man Rich, after Bankrupting Him - Gardening Documentary

How to grow cucumbers from seed at home. The history of cucumber. Learn how to deal with cucumber beetle and bacterial wilt in your organic garden. Learn the history of cucumber its origin and, its impact in culture, and follow a delicious lemon cucumber salad. Also hear the incredible of Henry Heinz.

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00:00 Cucumber success introduction
02:26 My experience growing cucumbers
03:13 My mythical cucumber harvest
04:25 Failure when growing cucumber
05:33 Sowing cucumbers with the plate germination method
06:48 Transplanting sprouted seedlings into cups - Origins of cucumber
08:22 The complicated origin of cucurbitaceae names
09:53 Planting out cucumber seedlings
10:55 The genetic origin of cucumber and melon
11:34 How emperor Tiberius grew cucumbers in movable frames
12:09 Ideal environment for cucumbers and melons
12:34 Slugs and cucumbers
13:32 Cucumber and culture in the East - Story of King Sagara - The Burmese cucumber king
15:50 The concept of fate and the wheel of fortune in ancient society
17:25 Cucumbers and lack of water
18:42 Cucumbers arrived in Europe in the Middle ages - The art of Carlo Crivelli
20:21 The story of Henry Heinz, from birth to entrepreneur
22:53 Importance of keeping cucumber vines watered - Supports for the climbing vines
25:55 The story of Henry Heinz, how cucumbers bankrupted him
29:35 Update on growth - The Japanese Kappa and cucumbers
31:41 Cucumbers and dry weather - Strong wild bur cucumber vines (sycius angulatus)
33:02 Bitterness and the Nilotic People - (cucumis prophetarum) - Toxic Squash Syndrome
35:05 What causes bitterness in cucumbers - Curcurbitacin and cucumber genetics
37:00 Cucumber beetles and bacterial wilt, a main threat to cucumber cultivation
39:54 The story of Henry Heinz - From bankrupt to 1893 Columbian World Fair Success
43:42 Harvesting first cucumbers
44:57 The history and biology of striped cucumber beetles and bacterial wilt
50:15 How industrial farms control cucumber beetles - environmental impact
51:57 Dealing with Bacterial Wilt in cucumbers - organic gardening tips
53:33 Lemon cucumber salad Recipe - organic tips continued.
55:32 What happened to the vines - End