Whether as a salad, braised vegetables or a face mask: they taste delicious, are he althy and a fountain of youth for the skin. More and more hobby gardeners want to plant cucumbers themselves. What is important and how they thrive from flowering to harvest in abundance.
How can you plant and care for cucumbers yourself?
Cucumbers can be successfully grown in the home garden or greenhouse. Choose a warm, sunny and wind-protected location with loose, nutrient-rich soil. Sow cucumbers from March (under glass) or April (outdoors), use trellises and harvest regularly to promote the growth of additional fruits.
Because of their high water content, they are not only used as a versatile food, but also as a moisturizer in cosmetics. There are over 40 types of cucumbers. Some recommended F1 hybrid cucumber varieties:
- Bella F 1 – high-yielding, robust, bitter-free, all-female flowering.
- Burpless Tasty Green F 1 – very digestible, aromatic.
- Sudica F 1 – insensitive to cold, seedless, bitter-free, purely female flowering.
- Rawa F 1 – robust, tasty, purely female-flowering, ideal for single households
Which location do cucumbers want?
Cucumber plants are sensitive to frost and are only allowed outside when the soil temperature is above 15° degrees. Therefore choose a warm and full sun location that is as sheltered from the wind as possible. If you want to be on the safe side, plant cucumbers in the greenhouse.
In which soil do cucumbers feel particularly comfortable?
Cucumber soil must be loose, nutrient-rich and humus-rich - and cucumbers love manure. Do you want to mix your own substrate for cucumbers? The substrate recipe that makes cucumbers sprout.
Sowing and planting cucumbers under glass or outdoors?
It is always worth considering whether you should grow the heat-loving cucumbers yourself in the greenhouse in advance and save money or whether it is better to buy young plants. These can be planted directly in the garden or on the balcony from mid-May. This saves time and work because you don't have to harden off or repot the plants. If you decide to grow cucumbers yourself, you should plan sowing in the greenhouse for March and outdoors from April.
This is how cucumbers wind their way safely up
Whether along the ground or climbing up - cucumbers rarely meander upwards. Plant stakes or trellises support the plants so that they grow he althily and bear fruit more easily.
From flower to harvest
The first cucumbers will be ripe in the greenhouse from May. Outdoors, harvesting of early plants begins in mid-July. Cut ripe cucumbers regularly. In this way you support the ripening process of other fruits and can enjoy garden-fresh cucumbers twice a week.
