If you have a greenhouse, cucumbers can be grown quite easily. Cucumber Glasshouse Duo will provide you with fresh cucumbers, alongside your greenhouse tomatoes, throughout the summer.
Cucumber ?Socrates? is an RHS award-winning, all female variety.
These Peticue Cucumbers are easy to grow and will ensure you eat an abundance of green vegetables this Summer. Best picked when a length of 6-8ins is reached. A short-vined variety, full of flavour, ideal for container growing indoors or out. A perfect addition to your vegetable patch, or a corner of your garden.
Cucumber ?Peticue? is an excellent variety for growing in a patio container.
Greenhouse typeThis all female, greenhouse variety produces 3-4 snack-sized fruits per node, and with shorter internodes between each fruit cluster, you?ll be sure of a bumper harvest!
'Mini Star' is a vigorous cucumber that will provide a profusion of small, delicious snack-sized fruit with smooth, glossy dark green skins and crisp, refreshing flesh. Just the thing for picking on a warm day in the garden! This is a grafted variety and by using a particularly strong rootstock the plants are bigger, stronger and more disease resistant than other varieties, and best of all, you can expect massively increased yields of sweet and juicy snack cucumbers all the way from June until October. Perfect in salads and sandwiches, or sliced lengthways for crudités and dips, and of course plucked straight from the plant and eaten straight away, these are amazing cucumbers and you'll love growing them as much as eating them. Pick often to encourage further fruiting and any surplus will be great for pickling. These little beauties are packed with nutrients and antioxidants - low in calories and a good source of vitamins A and C, as well as minerals and antioxidants. 'Mini Star' well inside a cold greenhouse or equally well outdoors in your garden beds or patio pots. For best results, support them with netting or a trellis, although they can be grown successfully at ground level. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting.
Greenhouse typeCucumber 'Merlin' is perfect for the greenhouse or a polytunnel. This all-female variety produces excellent crops of short, smooth skinned fruits measuring up to 15cm, with a mild flavour and no bitter aftertaste. Fruits are produced at every node, every few days so you can be sure of a bumper harvest. This reliable variety shows good resistance to common diseases including powdery mildew, downy mildew and cucumber mosaic virus. Height: 3m (9?). Spread: 45cm (18).
'Petita' is a great variety of mini cucumber that will provide you with a profusion of small, delicious snack-sized, crisp, and refreshing fruits. Just the thing for picking on a warm day in the garden! Very easy to grow, 'Petita' has been developed to produce fewer female flowers and no male flowers. This means you no longer have to remove any flowers and prevent fertilisation and in turn, prevent bitter tasting fruits. From July to September, you can expect to be treated with yields of sweet and juicy snack cucumbers. Perfect in salads and sandwiches, or sliced lengthways for crudités and dips, and of course plucked straight from the plant and eaten straight away, these are amazing cucumbers, and you'll love growing them as much as eating them. Pick often to encourage further fruiting and any surplus will be great for pickling. These little beauties are packed with nutrients and antioxidants - low in calories and a good source of vitamins A and C, as well as minerals and antioxidants. 'Petita' is well suited for growing in the UK climate and will tolerate lower temperatures unlike other varieties. It will grow well inside a cool greenhouse or equally well outdoors in your garden beds or patio pots. For best results, support them with netting or a trellis, although they can be grown successfully at ground level. Supplied 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting. Reaching a height and spread of 1m.
This vigorous variety produces delicious, snack-size fruits that are perfect for lunch boxes, salads and picnics. Cucumber 'Baby Rocky' is a heavy cropper and early to ripen. The smooth-skinned fruits are just 9cm (4?) long with crisp flesh and an excellent flavour.