 Welcome to Getting Clean on the Prairies. I am just getting things set up here so I can start my cucumbers indoors. So for planting my cucumbers I am going to try using these biodegradable paper cups that I cut holes in the bottom of and I'm hoping that I can just plant them up in these cups and they'll go right from here to to my garden in about in about six weeks I think. Months to six weeks we're at the third week of April. So yeah I guess we're about five or six weeks away from last frost and we'll see what the weather's like by mid-June and if these are ready to go out into the garden. So like my tomato planting I'm trying to keep myself limited on how many cucumbers I start and how many varieties that I'm going to be trying this year. So I've narrowed it down to just five different kinds of cucumbers and I'm going to just do up two containers with each. Two seeds in each so just in case some of them don't germinate and from there we'll see how many we have to go into the garden. So as I mentioned I have five different types of cucumbers I'm going to try growing and the first one is a persious hybrid cucumber. So this is a self-pollinating cucumber. I think it's similar to like an English type cucumber so you can eat the peeling or the skin as well. So I'm going to try that straight age. This is a standard cucumber that grows well here all the time. I like to grow them every year. They're a good slicing cucumber. Tastes great all the time in salads. The national pickling if I decide I'm going to do pickles these are supposed to be good for that. You can pick them when they're a small size and they're good for pickling but also good just to eat fresh as well. This is one that I've purchased locally from Blazing Star Company. You see I buy a lot of my seeds from and this is the lemon cucumber. I tried the cucumber in last summer and it kind of got choked out by my other cucumbers so I'm going to give it another try and grow it separately I think in a in its own pot. So try that and then this is another one that I received through the Canadian seed exchange challenge. It's called a yellow apple cucumber and I received that from a fellow gardener in Toronto so I'm going to try those. Very interested to see what those turn out like. Okay so I thought as part of my winter sowing versus indoor growing challenge that maybe a good fun test here what to would be to try planting some of these cucumber seeds in the winter sowing jugs as well sticking them outside. These will be planted the same time as the ones that I've started indoors just a couple days apart and see how this goes. Cucumbers are not very cold tolerant plants and they do like a warm soil temperature and need that warm temperature to germinate so it'll be interesting to see whether they can germinate in a winter sowing jug. So I'm going to just plant two of the kinds that I'm planting in my indoors grows growing and that is the straight eight and the perseus. So I was filming my planting of the cucumber seeds indoors and I mustn't have the record button going because I didn't capture that planting but it's pretty straightforward. I think most people know how to plant seeds. I don't need to show you but I'm just going to set these on top. I'm going to put four in here. These ones have a coating on them perseus ones. Pretty blue color. Then I just press them down about a half inch to the soil with this pen. Soil is well moistened. Just cover it up, press it down and we will take that up. So I've moistened this soil from the top and also set it in a tray here with a bunch of water to let it wake up so it's good and heavy. It's very moist and it is quite likely because the temperatures here are still very cold. They're still predicting some freezing temperatures of about minus 8 to minus 10 degrees Celsius. So it's quite likely that this is going to freeze. Not sure what's going to happen so it'll be interesting to see. Okay so we're just going to take these cucumbers out to the winter sowing jug patch out here. Add them to the group. I've been using straw only here as their insulation. I haven't been covering them up at night, taking them indoors. We'll see how they do. I have peeped at a few of these. They still have green sprouts. Nothing too big yet. I forgot to write on the outside but I do have the marked on the inside. So needless to say so far the indoor growing is way ahead of the winter sowing jugs but I see this kind of it as a tortoise and the hare kind of race. Those indoor plants have a really nice warm environment and a perfect growing situation and they are just flying along but these jugs out here they have a much colder harsher environment so they are moving along much slower. Hopefully though at the end of the race they will come out tougher and stronger and maybe do better in the garden at the end of the day. So if you want to keep watching and find out how my winter sowing versus indoor growing challenge goes please don't forget to hit subscribe, leave a comment and click on the notification bell so that you don't miss out on the next video.