Cucumber — Vegetables

Cucumis sativus

Full sun, regular watering — happiest indoors.

Photograph of Cucumber — iNaturalist / GBIF

Sow: Mar
Plant out: May–Jun
Harvest: Aug–Sep
In flower: Jun, Jul, Aug

Sun: Full sun
Water: High
Hardiness: H1b
Season: summer
Height: 10–50 cm
Spacing: 250 cm
Pets: Safe around pets

Grows well with

Borage — Borage is listed as a good neighbour for cucumbers, pulling in bees for the flowers and predatory insects for the pests.Beetroot — Cucumbers are named as a good neighbour for beetroot. Mixed planting is held to let different crops help each other, partly through scent that puts pests off.Dill — Dill is recommended as a partner for cucumbers. It is said to put off aphids, mites and some beetles, and its flowers bring in hoverflies and predatory wasps that deal with pests for you.Radish — Cucumbers and winter radish are an unfavourable pairing - do not put them in the same row.Lettuce — Cucumbers are named as a good neighbour for lettuce. Mixing unlike crops is held to help them along, partly because the scents put feeding pests off.Potato — Cucumbers are listed as a poor neighbour for potatoes, so keep the two in separate zones.

Growing notes

Grows to 0.1-0.5 metres. Space about 150-250cm apart. In flower Jun-Aug.