Plant Details:
Scientific Name: Cucumis sativus
Common Name: Cucumber
Blooming Season: Early Spring, Spring, Late Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Late Summer
Plant Habit: Climbing, Trailing
Characteristics: Culinary Use
Spacing: 15 - 20" (38 - 51cm)
Height: 20 - 24" (51 - 61cm)
Width: 15 - 20" (38 - 51cm)
Exposure: Sun
General Information: The perfect addition to brighten up your windowsill or table top. It provides deliciously crisp and sweet cucumbers for your recipes! It will produce handfuls of small, cocktail-sized cucumbers for a few weeks. Be sure to place it in a location with high light and keep well-watered to allow fruit to mature. Harvest the fruit at 1.5 to 2.5 in./4 to 6 cm long to promote new flowers and fruit.
Grower Information:
Buy. Eat. Repeat!
The Kitchen Minis™ collection includes potted vegetable plants consumers can grow inside on a sunny windowsill or counter, without a garden!
Easy-to-grow Kitchen Minis encourage consumers to harvest and enjoy their own homegrown indoor vegetables, with a fresh harvest over a few weeks!
- Plants benefit from being trellised to keep upright and pinched when plant reaches top of trellis.
- Deliciously crisp and sweet cucumbers for your recipes! Eat fresh off the plant, or add to a vegetable platter or fresh salad.
- Produces handfuls of small, cocktail-sized cucumbers over a few weeks.
- Parthenocarpic variety will set fruit without a pollinator! Perfect for growing indoors or on a balcony. If grown on its own, fruit will be seedless. If grown next to other cucumbers with male flowers, there is potential to set seed.
- Be sure to place it in a location with high light and keep well-watered to allow fruit to mature.
- For best flavour, pick when fruit is 1.5 to 2.5 in./4 to 6 cm long.