Green, short, long and slender - not only snack cucumbers in mini format, but also long snake cucumbers or cucumbers can be planted in tubs or pots. Provided you meet their special requirements in terms of climate, location and care.
Cucumbers are ideal for pot culture, provided the bucket is large enough
Their properties make cucumbers ideal for pot and tub plants. Whether in a bucket or pot - cucumbers need a lot of space. The perfect planter must not be too small. Both sufficient planting distance between the individual cucumbers and sufficient root depth must be taken into account.
Cucumber seeds or young plants?
As soon as young cucumber plants are 20 centimeters high, you can repot them to their final location. The distance between them should be at least 60 centimetres. Cucumbers actually need a yearly change of location - laborious in the greenhouse. Because replacing the soil is a lot of work.
A recommended alternative: plant cucumbers in tubs, pots or in substrate bags. Enrich the substrate with compost or rotted cow manure and distribute on the compost or in the garden after the season. The plants thrive in new soil every year.
Repot cucumbers in tubs - everything you need:
- Seeds from cucumbers or garden stores
- 20 liter tubs, pots or substrate bags
- Germination substrate or potting soil
- seed soil
- climbing aid
- fertilizer
Because they originally come from northern India, cucumbers prefer a sunny location that is protected from rain and cold. Therefore place it on a southern house wall. This protects against wind and radiates additional heat to the cucumbers. Mildew-resistant cucumber varieties especially for tubs or pots include:
- Printo F1 - mini cucumber for salad
- Ministar F1 - snack cucumber refined
These crunchy, smooth, full-flavored cucumbers are seedless. Just harvest and eat like a sausage.
The soil should be loose and nutrient-rich. Avoid waterlogging! If the soil is dry, water cucumbers from below, keeping the leaves dry. Feed once a week with an organic fertilizer containing potassium, phosphorus and magnesium but no nitrogen. Or add long-term fertilizer to the soil when planting. At the end of July you can already harvest and enjoy the first wonderfully fresh, crunchy cucumbers.
tips
Homemade fertilizer: Fill a watering can with stinging nettles and spent cucumber shoots and then fill it up with water. Leave to ferment for 2 weeks. Then fertilize or spray cucumbers with diluted nettle broth once a week.