Cucumbers!

I'm growing cucumbers for the first time this year. They are self fertilising.
Do I need to pinch out side shoots and tips like tomatoes. Also what to feed them with please.

 

Training
•Regularly secure stems of indoor varieties to the cane and once it has reached the roof, pinch out the tip.
•Pinch out the shoots from side branches holding fruit, leaving two leaves after each. All female varieties produce fruit on the main stem, so remove laterals altogether.
•Allow outdoor varieties to trail across the ground like marrows.
•When plants have five or six leaves, pinch out the growing tip and allow side branches to grow. If stems do not bear flowers, pinch out at the seventh leaf.
Removing flowers
•Many varieties have both male and female flowers on the same plants.
•Both should be left on outdoor varieties, but pinch off the male flowers when they appear on indoor varieties to prevent the fruit from becoming bitter.
•The flowers are easy to tell apart - the female flower has a swelling beneath it that will become a cucumber. Alternatively, choose all female flower varieties.
Watering and feeding
•Cucumbers must be kept moist, but not soaking, to prevent a check to the fruit.
•Once the fruit appears, give them a boost by feeding every fortnight with a fertiliser high in potash.
Harvesting
•Remove fruit by cutting off with a pair of secateurs or a sharp knife.
•Outdoor picking usually finishes by mid-September, while harvesting indoors can go on into mid October.

 

The above was stolen from the BBC by the way, not my own work!

 

They probably won't be very chuffed. Suggest you provide a link instead.

 

Thanks Daytona,
I promise I won't tell the BBC.

 

Thanks Sheal, I'm sure the BBC don't patrol here regularly enough to take offence, and they did get credit for the work