As most of the salad vegetables cucumbers taste best when they are freshly picked from the vine. There is a huge difference in taste between home grown and the ones bought the supermarkets. Bear in mind that quite a lot of space is needed for growing cucumbers; they can grow really bushy so you will have to train the plants on trellises or on some sort of cane structure.
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Sow the cucumber seeds individually into 3in pots filled with a good quality potting compost. Push the cucumber seed about half an inch deep into the potting compost. Make sure the compost is thoroughly watered after sowing the seeds as the cucumber seed is pretty hard coated, so will need lots of moisture to germinate. Keep the compost watered and the germination should take place within 10 days at a temperature of 15-20 Celsius. As the cucumber is a warm loving plant the higher the temperature is the better and the cucumber seeds will not germinate under 10 Celsius. If you have an unheated greenhouse it is a good idea to cover the pots with a plastic sheet just to make sure that you provide enough warmth and this way the compost will stay moist longer too.
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Sow the cucumber seeds individually into 3in pots filled with a good quality potting compost. Push the cucumber seed about half an inch deep into the potting compost. Make sure the compost is thoroughly watered after sowing the seeds as the cucumber seed is pretty hard coated, so will need lots of moisture to germinate. Keep the compost watered and the germination should take place within 10 days at a temperature of 15-20 Celsius. As the cucumber is a warm loving plant the higher the temperature is the better and the cucumber seeds will not germinate under 10 Celsius. If you have an unheated greenhouse it is a good idea to cover the pots with a plastic sheet just to make sure that you provide enough warmth and this way the compost will stay moist longer too.
