>>341489Haha yeah, I love helping people out, plus /out/ answered a few of my questions in this thread and helped me so I'm just returning the favor back and helping others. You can get totally lost and immersed in gardening and it goes from being a hobby to the total merging or art and science.
For your cucumber seeds, I know Burpee puts a design of a pot with a checkmark through it on the bottom right corner of the front of the packs if it is suitable for container growing so hopefully yours is like that. I'm close to having trouble with a 7 feet tall tomato plant that is outgrowing its pot/container and its too tall/too much fruit/too heavy to transplant so its a tricky situation and yo don't want to be in something like this so be sure to get a pot just 'slightly' larger than the recommended size incase. I engineered my box too well with nutrients and the growth of the plants in it is getting too large and might be a problem. With my zucchini, I use the 'standard' Miracle Gro All-Purpose fertilizer (24-8-16) since I know that family uses lots of nitrogen, but you don't want to overload it or else no flowers and no fruit so I add in a teaspoon of 'bloom booster' (10-60-10) which significantly puts the Potassium level up and the flowers produce. They open early in the morning only and the bees love them. Heres one I saw the other morning.
Not sure where you live but in Zone 10a, Strawberries aren't good to be grown in this area and climate. I tried growing them in the ground and they got 'red stele' which is a nasty virus that is like cancer to strawberry plants. Container growing is a different story and you have control over those factors. Be aware of 'cold stratification' (you absolutely have to 'simulate winter' for the berries and they have to experience a dormancy/cold period before they can grow) I tried it with both the raspberry and strawberry seeds (seeds put in freezer for 2 months) but nothing happened. You might have better luck than I did though!
