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Grafted Cucumber 'Kuper F1' Plant
Cool, crisp and fast growing
Grown by Josh
South Downs National Park
The highlights
- Shiny dark green cucumbers
- Perfect for salads, garnishes, raita and juices
- Grafted plants for up to 75% more yield
- F1 variety for better performance and bigger harvests
Description
- Smooth, glossy dark green cucumbers growing to 32-36cm, with a crisp texture and bitter-free flavour
- Perfect for salads, smoothies and juices, raita, couscous bowls or garnishing a G&T
- Grow in a greenhouse or a sunny, sheltered spot outdoors - will need support
- F1 hybrids combine the best qualities of two top performing varieties to produce a plant with improved vigour and bigger crops
- Plant out after the first frosts and harvest from June to October
- Premium garden ready plants grown by vegetable experts on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
- Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop
- Grafting combines the top part of one plant with the root system of another, more vigorous variety. As they grow, their tissues fuse, giving you the vigour of the rootstock combined with the characteristics of the variety you have chosen. This makes them healthier, more productive and less susceptible to pests and diseases
- Easy to grow and care for - you should see your first cucumbers within 8-10 weeks
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How To Grow
Excellent pest and disease resistance
Grafted vegetable plants have higher disease resistance. The most common cucumber pests and diseases are whitefly, cucumber mosaic virus, aphids and powdery mildew. The best protection against disease is to space your plants out well and prevent too much humidity on the leaves by watering in the morning and at the base. Planting companion plants such as marigolds will attract predators such as ladybirds and hoverflies which will eat pests, and you can keep aphids down by spraying your plant with a mixture of water, vegetable oil and soap.
Water regularly
Feel the soil and if it is dry to the touch a fingernail deep, give the plant a watering. On hot, summer days, this means watering once a day. If the soil becomes too dry too regularly this will stunt the growth of cucumbers and cause them to taste bitter.
Full sun
Cucumber plants need 6-8 hours of direct sun every day. If not positioned in a greenhouse or inside space, place in a position sheltered from chilling winds such as a south-facing wall.
Any fertile, well-draining soil
Thrives in any well-drained soil. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and/or often becomes waterlogged then you can improve the drainage by adding in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost as well as some perlite or gravel.
Feed weekly
After the first flowers appear, start feeding the cucumber plant every week. Use a fertiliser high in potash, such as organic chicken manure pellets or liquid tomato feed.
Planting Calendar
- Best time to plant
- Harvest
- Flower
South Downs National Park
Meet Josh
Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs
Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.
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Our plants are grown in the UK
Specialist UK growers we know and trust grow your plants the traditional way, with organic fertiliser and biological pest control. They pick only the healthiest plants for you, professionally pruning them so that they’ll grow strong and well shaped.
Our plants are delivered overnight
Your plants are sent to you fresh from the field in our plastic free box that’s specially designed to hold them tight, then securely delivered by specialist plant couriers - straight from the grower to your garden within 24 hours.
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We want your plants to have a long and healthy life. Expect easy-to-follow grow guides and videos devised by our team of experts.
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When will I get my plants?
The delivery timescale for each plant is on the web page (near the 'add to basket's button). You'll receive a dispatch email with an exact delivery date once your plants are on their way, so you can get the garden ready.
How will my plants be packed and delivered?
We send all of our orders through a courier network designed to handle plants. Specialist equipment ensures that no plants will be damaged during the packing process and every order is carefully finished and checked by plant-loving humans. Your plants will arrive in the most sustainable packaging possible with minimal to no plastic used.
Where do you deliver?
We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.
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Excellent delivery and service
Well, the delivery was spot on, the tree looks healthy enough for a sleeping plant, although at the moment most of the branches are on one side of the trunk which in itself is bent banana-style. quite wonky. One can only hope that it grows into a fruitful plant with some character?
30 January
Nice sized tree in good condition
Time will tell on the quality of the product (bare-root apple trees), but the stems that arrived seemed in great condition and very well packaged so no damage in transit. Looking forward to Spring!
Ange
Appears v healthy
Very happy with purchase
Ms Arlene Bocking
Lovely tree
So happy with my purchase of my Braeburn Hillwell apple tree from Roots Plants. It arrived promptly, well packaged and in a good, healthy condition. I soaked it for an hour before planting and it's doing well. Looking forward to our home grown apples, in time.
Ms Arlene Bocking
It has picked up now and is growing well
It arrived in a heat wave and looked a little bit sorry for itself when planted out but it has picked up now and is growing well.
David Osborne
Good service all round
Arrived on time as the seller said it would and the courier gave me a time slot to track my parcel. It came well packaged and was of good quality for this time of year. It looks a good and healthy tree and will be planted up in a few weeks after the ground has been prepared. I’m pleased with my purchase.
Helen