vegetable
Cucumber
Warm soil. Trellis it. Pick daily or it turns into a seedy club overnight.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Spacing
- 12 in on a trellis
- Days
- 50–65
- Zones
- 4a–11a
How to sow
Warm soil, two weeks after last frost. Trellis. Or start in pots 3 weeks prior if the season is short.
Harvest
Daily. A yellowing cucumber is a seed factory that shuts the vine down.
Mistakes that waste a packet
- Cold soil
- Leaving club fruit on the vine
- No trellis in a small bed
Three packets
Marketmore 76
BeginnerThe slicer that still shows up in home gardens for a reason.
Lemon Cucumber
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The sow list
A note when it is time to sow
Seasonal, not daily. We will send what to start in your zone, and skip the rest of the year.
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