Specialty Gardening: Growing cucumber in 5 gal bucket - fertilization question, 1 by Cwade504

Cwade504 wrote:
Hi!

I'm growing a burpless cucumber in a 5 gal bucket. I planted it with good soil and compost and have been fertilizing about every 7-10 days with all purpose plant food (miracle grow) but last week I switched to a 18-21-21 formula (MiracleGro Tomato Plant Food).

I'm getting one cucumber every 3 days or so and I'm wondering if perhaps I need to fertilize more often because cucumbers are such heavy feeders and it's in the bucket. Any thoughts?