Best time to plant cucumber in Marble Bar
Cucumis sativus
Sow cucumber in Marble Bar in Aug to Feb.
Cucumber is a frost-tender vine in the gourd family, grown for fruit picked green and crisp before the seeds harden. Plants sprawl or climb, and a trellis saves space and keeps the fruit clean. Types range from short Lebanese and pickling cucumbers to long continental ones. Keep watering steady, as dry spells can make the fruit bitter.
When to sow in Marble Bar
Marble Bar, WA is in the arid zone. Its months for cucumber apply here without a frost adjustment.
Broadly matches local guides, with some differences.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Marble Bar
Marble Bar frosts in fewer than 1 year in 10, so frost doesn't hold back any planting here.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Grow it up a trellis to save room and keep fruit clean, and put the trellis where its shade won't fall on a neighbour.
Growing details
- How to start
- Sow directly or raise seedlings
- Sowing depth
- 2-3cm
- Plant spacing
- 15cm on a trellis, 60-90cm sprawling
- Row spacing
- 90cm
- Germination
- About 10 days
- Time to harvest
- 55 days
- Frost
- Frost tender
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.