Sow Right Seeds - Non-GMO Heirloom Beit Alpha Cucumber Seeds for Planting - Home Vegetable Garden Starter Kit with Growing Instructions - Indoor & Outdoor Planting with Trellis - Perfect for Fresh Salads, Pickling, and Healthy Snacking (2 Pack)

Every seed planted sprouted and the production was crazy. I direct seeded in raised beds. I had planted a few plants of another variety and probably got 10-12 fruit off both plants across their lifetime, probably mostly due to lack of pollination imo. These Beit Alphas produced like crazy. Planted 6, and after a few weeks of growing, was harvesting 4-10 a day for a good two months off this one batch of planting. Had cucumbers coming out of my ears, even though I had to fight off a pickle worm outbreak in the middle of the season. Oh and the taste was great too!Make sure you have something for it to climb and help train young plants if need be, grow cucumbers UP not OUT. Water the ground at the base of the plant in the AM, do NOT water the plant itself (on the leaves), and thin out leaves regularly to get maximum airflow to reduce chances of mildew. Mildew that does happen can be corrected with food safe mildew spray. Watch for holes in the fruit (pickle worms) and in the vine (vine borer) and correct accordingly for best harvest. Make sure you don't let the cucumbers fully mature (will be large and start yellowing at the blossom end) before picking, or the plant will start to kill itself off because it will sense it has done it's job (creating mature fruit that will seed and further the species).Succession planting is great for cucumbers. To spread out your harvest and not get overwhelmed with stock (like I did), but have a nice constant supply, plant one or two as early as possible, then wait 2-3 weeks and plant again. Repeat until a month or so before your first expected frost date. If you run out of space, and have enough time left in your season; as your older plants start to die off, pull them out, add some compost or other nutrient rich amendment and replant. You can have consistent cucumbers for 6-8 months out of the year or more depending on zone.Saw a few reviews complaining about a lot of male flowers, you should be pinching off male flowers until you get a female, some experts even suggest pinching off female flowers if the plant is still small, to help it focus on root and foliage growth instead of spending energy on a fruit. This variety does not need male flowers for the female flowers to fruit. Every female flower will fruit. Either way, pinching off flowers will focus the plant on new production. If, later, you find your more mature plant still having a lot of male flowers, just pinch them off (try to leave some for the bees though!) to again focus the plant in the way you want it to work.