Cucumbers are easy to grow and a summer essential for salads and sandwiches. READ MORE:* Grow more vegetables than ever before* How to grow parsnips* 20 top value vegetables to grow in your backyardStep-by-stepSow cucumber seed 2cm deep in trays filled with moist seed raising mix. Standout varieties‘Lebanese’ and ‘Diva’ are prolific cucumbers and can be eaten skin and all unlike telegraph cucumbers which have tougher skins. For mini cukes that you can also grow in pots, try ‘Iznik Mini’, which bears up to a dozen seedless 10cm long cucumbers at any one time, and ‘Spacemaster’, one of the most prolific cucumbers in NZ Gardener’s cucumber trials. If you want to grow round apple cucumbers, go for heritage variety ‘Green Apple’ which lacks the bitterness of ‘Crystal Apple’.

Source: Stuff September 09, 2021 02:03 UTC