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3 Organic 'Marketmore' Cucumber Plants Vegetables

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3 Organic 'Marketmore' Cucumber Plants

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RHS Award Winning Cucumber for even the British weather

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RHS Award Winner for reliable, heavy crops
Suitable for growing outside or indoors in pots
Cool, fresh flavour and crisp texture
Excellent versatile cucumber for use in salads or to garnish drinks
Eat as mini cucumbers or allow to grow to full size
Long cropping season - harvest fresh when needed

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Supplied as:

3 Plug Plants

Plug plants are small seedlings that allows you to skip the germination process involved in having to sow from seed.

Height on arrival:

10-20cm

Eventual height:

Eventual spread:

45cm

Tasting notes:

Slightly bitter, fresh, hydrating cucumber taste

Time to first crop:

8-10 weeks

Best harvested when the cucmber reaches 15-20cm

Hardiness:

Not Hardy

Plant outside after frost and keep in a sunny, sheltered location.

Uses:

Salads, Sandwiches, In Drinks, Pickles

Rootstock:

Spacing:

45-90cm

If growing vertically up a support then space the plants 45cm apart. If left to sprawl along the flaw then space 90cm apart.

Care Guide

Good disease/pest resistance

Marketmore is particularly good at resisting common cucumber problems such as Powdery Mildew. However, Powdery Mildew can still be a problem along with other cucumber pests and diseases such as Whitefly, Cucumber Mosaic Virus, and Aphids. The best protection against these scourges is to try and prevent too much humidity on the leaves by watering in the morning and preventing splashing from the soil to the leaves. Also planting companion plants such as Marigolds will attract predators such as ladybirds and hoverflies which will eat the pests. See below for a description of each problem.MORE

Water Regularly

Full sun in a sheltered positionMORE

Full sun in a sheltered position

Cucumber plants need 6-8 hours of direct sunlight every day. If possible, plant in a sheltered location, or even in a greenhouse, protected against chilling winds as the plant will prefer consistently warm temperatures to produce fruit.MORE

Fertile, well-draining soil

A good-mix to use is three parts quality compost to one part topsoil.MORE

Feed Regularly

As soon as the plant begins to produce flowers then start feeding them every fortnight with a high potash feed such as organic liquid tomato feed.MORE

Some required

Once the plant has produced around 10 leaves you should prune off the growing tip so the plant can direct energy towards growing fruit.MORE