Cucumber Manny - West Coast Seeds
Cucumis sativus
- Beit-Alpha type
- Parthenocarpic plants
- Plant in garden or high tunnel
- High quality, refined cucumbers
Refined Beit-alpha type sets smooth skinned fruit on hardy plants that can be grown is a greenhouse or out in the garden. Expect heavy yields of 13-18cm (5-7") cucumbers with excellent flavour and texture.
10 Seeds
Cucumbers need very warm soil to germinate. If direct sowing, wait until mid-June. If weather turns cool and wet after that, just re-sow. Or start transplants indoors in individual peat or coir pots 3-4 weeks before transplanting out into warm soil. If starting indoors, use bottom heat. Transplant when the plants develop their third true leaf. If the plants are too big, they may experience transplant shock. Optimal soil temperature for germination (and transplanting): 15-30°C (60-85°F).
Sow 3-4 seeds 2cm (1″) deep in each spot you want a plant to grow. Thin to the strongest seedling. Space plants 23cm (9″) apart in rows 90cm (36″) apart.
Harvest: For a continuous harvest, make successive plantings every 2 to 3 weeks until about 3 months before first fall frost date. Keep picking the cucumbers regularly, because if they get too big, the plant will stop producing. About one month before first frost, start pinching off new flowers so plants channel energy into ripening existing fruit.
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Cucumis sativus
- Beit-Alpha type
- Parthenocarpic plants
- Plant in garden or high tunnel
- High quality, refined cucumbers
Refined Beit-alpha type sets smooth skinned fruit on hardy plants that can be grown is a greenhouse or out in the garden. Expect heavy yields of 13-18cm (5-7") cucumbers with excellent flavour and texture.
10 Seeds
Cucumbers need very warm soil to germinate. If direct sowing, wait until mid-June. If weather turns cool and wet after that, just re-sow. Or start transplants indoors in individual peat or coir pots 3-4 weeks before transplanting out into warm soil. If starting indoors, use bottom heat. Transplant when the plants develop their third true leaf. If the plants are too big, they may experience transplant shock. Optimal soil temperature for germination (and transplanting): 15-30°C (60-85°F).
Sow 3-4 seeds 2cm (1″) deep in each spot you want a plant to grow. Thin to the strongest seedling. Space plants 23cm (9″) apart in rows 90cm (36″) apart.
Harvest: For a continuous harvest, make successive plantings every 2 to 3 weeks until about 3 months before first fall frost date. Keep picking the cucumbers regularly, because if they get too big, the plant will stop producing. About one month before first frost, start pinching off new flowers so plants channel energy into ripening existing fruit.
