DOUBLE Your CUCUMBERS, SQUASH And MELONS With This Simple Trick!

In this video, I share an easy hand pollinating procedure that will double your cucumbers, squash and melons! Growing cucumbers, squash and melons can be a challenge for gardeners, because they have separate male and female flowers. If pollination fails, the baby fruits will shrivel and drop. This is the cause of most gardener’s problems growing cucurbits, and in this video, we correct the problem!

By hand pollinating, you can double, triple, quadruple your harvest, or more! In addition, I also show you unique cucurbit varieties that do not require pollination so you’ll grow more squash, cucumbers and melons than you ever thought possible!

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Links to seeds above are affiliate links. If you choose to use them, I would receive a small commission at no cost to you.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 How To Pollinate Cucurbits
2:49 Why Your Plants Fail To Pollinate
6:19 How To Hand Pollinate Cucurbits
10:18 Gynoecious Seeds Double Your Harvest
12:29 Parthenocarpic Cucumber Varieties
14:26 Can I Save Seeds?
16:06 Parthenocarpic Squash
18:57 Adventures With Dale

If you have any questions about how to grow cucumbers, how to grow squash and how to grow melons, want to know about the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!

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