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Today is a rather unusual day to celebrate, but it’s a good one! It’s Hendrick’s World Cucumber Day. And in honour of this day, I’m sharing a few unusual cucumber growing tips from Hendrick’s Gin, who conducted a very different kind of experiment, which revealed cucumbers to be highly sensitive to sound, scent and touch! So, if you want to grow the most glorious cucumbers for your G&T’s, then you may want to crank up your playlist, make better choices on what other plants you plant them with and start swaddling those glorious greens. Sound kinda crazy – you ain’t seen nothing yet… In an attempt to discover what makes Cucumbers grow happier and healthier, Hendrick’s Gin, together with scientist Graham Brown of the University of Sydney, researched some rather unorthodox methods that were proven to help cucumbers grow larger and juicer. They found that cucumbers are more aware of their surrounding than you may think and just like any living thing, they require lots of love and care. A little more than the usual sun and water staples all plants require to grow, Cucumbers, believe it or not, can benefit from outside stiumuli. For example, cucumbers that listened to…
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