I can’t even stand the small of them but always grow some for my daughter. I hate cucumbers but love pickles. The only thing I have found is that they will mildew pretty bad during times of a lot of rain and we get a lot of rain in S.E. TN. Some people plant them on hills and spread straw to keep them from lying in mud. It doesn’t seem to hurt the cucumbers to be wet but the leaves mildew. I can’t even say for sure it’s the wet conditions because I don’t like them enough to care. LOL I can’t pick them fast enough here even with the dying leaves and what she can’t eat I give away.
According to the Farmer’s Almanac, cucumbers like direct sun and warmth, well-drained soil. My friend’s dad across the street (back in my youth) grew them on a small, built up patch behind the garage in their yard, facing south. Sun all day, and the raised up mound drained well.
We were more into green beans, peppers, carrots, and tomatoes - lots of tomatoes. My mother would make tomato sauce and can several jars every year.
I’ll have to look at what grows best in chirt - LOL - seriously, I have some very rich black soil under the power lines that apparently, they forgot to scrape off and take when they ran the power line through here some 30 years ago. Seems like the ideal soil for gardening, though it is about 150 feet from the house.