Outdoor cucumbers are among the most popular vegetables among garden owners. They taste refreshing, have fewer calories but all the more vitamins and minerals. Cucumbers in the open air - you should pay special attention to this when growing cucumbers outdoors.

The right outdoor cucumber for every taste

Generally high-yielding varieties are the F1 hybrids with a long harvest period. Some are also free of bitter substances and resistant to mildew. For example, you can choose between the following varieties of cucumbers and pickles:

  • Rimoni F1 - Cucumbers - bitter free, edible peel.
  • Delicacy - mini cucumber for salad or for pickling.
  • Monastery cucumber (Monastyrski) - cucumber, robust, can be stored for a long time.
  • Foothill grapes - early ripe, delicious pickling cucumber.
  • Sikkim cucumber - cucumber, Indian variety, very aromatic.
  • Lemon Cucumber - Snack cucumber, small, plump, white flesh.

In order to get resistant, more robust plants, you can graft cucumbers yourself or buy grafted cucumber plants.

Outdoor cucumbers Cultivation in greenhouses and outdoors

As long as the ground is below 15°C, outdoor cucumbers will hardly grow. To make them grow faster, simply place them in the warm, humid greenhouse until the outside temperature rises. They can go outside in mid-May. However, the heat-requiring plants should slowly be accustomed to the outdoor climate. Plant at a distance of 60 centimeters in the prepared bed or tub in a sunny and wind-protected place.

Outdoor cucumber cultivation on the balcony

You can grow outdoor cucumbers on the balcony in a bucket or pot of at least 20 liters. Fill the planter with substrate or potting soil, plant cucumbers, attach to a trellis and place in a wind-protected, sunny location.

Finally harvest time

It takes 6 weeks from cultivation to harvest for outdoor cucumbers. Salad cucumbers from the bed are most aromatic when you harvest them in the morning. If the skin begins to turn yellowish, the cucumbers are overripe. Harvest the outdoor cucumbers now at the latest, so that smaller specimens can still ripen.

Good and not so good friends

Whether in the greenhouse or in the open air - good friends are beans, garlic, kohlrabi, spinach and dill. Not so good: Peas, cabbage, beetroot and celery.

tips and tricks

Outdoor cucumbers in particular are heavy feeders and remove nutrients from the soil. Therefore it makes sense to spread a biological long-term fertilizer around the plant.

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