Edible Potted Cucumber Quick Snack

Seed supplied as: Raw.

Class : Cocktail

Flower Type : Parthenocarpic

Fruit Characteristics : Dark green skin, smooth

Fruit Size : 1.5-2.5 in./4-6 cm long x 1 in./3 cm wide

Days to maturity from direct seed : 38-45

Plug crop time (weeks): direct sow 3-4 or 128-cell tray, 1-2

Potting to sale (weeks): 6

Pot Size: 6-8" / 15-20 cm

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.
• National Garden Bureau Green Thumb Winner.

Vegetable Category

Plant Information

Scientific Name : Cucumis sativus

Common Name : Cucumber

Blooming Season : Early Spring, Spring, Late Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Late Summer

Plant Habit : Climbing, Trailing

Spacing : 15 - 20" (38 - 51cm)

Height : 20 - 24" (51 - 61cm)

Width : 15 - 20" (38 - 51cm)

Exposure : Sun

National Garden Bureau Green Thumb Award