Cucumber
White spots (powder) on zucchini plants: how to treat powdery mildew?
In the permaculture vegetable garden as in others, there is a crop that is particularly sensitive to a disease that despairs even experienced gardeners: zucchini and powdery mildew. This cryptogamic disease settles on the large leaves of your zucchini plants...
20 July 2024
Why won't my cucumbers grow?
It's a familiar scenario in the vegetable garden: you've sown or transplanted some beautiful cucumber plants, watered them conscientiously, they've started to climb their trellis or run across the ground, the first flowers have arrived... and then nothing. Or almost...
5 July 2025
Yellow and bitter cucumbers: why? And what can you do about it?
You're proud of your garden cucumbers, but now they're taking on an unusual yellow colour and an unappealing bitter taste? Rest assured, this annoyance is fairly common, especially in summer, and can be corrected with a few simple steps. In...
19 July 2025
How do you combat powdery mildew?
Oidium is a fungus that generally attacks courgettes and other vegetables in the Cucurbitaceae family (squash, cucumbers, melons, etc.). Although it can sometimes be found on leaves as early as the beginning of summer, it generally only becomes a problem...
14 February 2026
Cucumber
- Type : Vegetables
- Subtype : Fruiting vegetables
- Botanical Family : Cucurbits
Characteristics
- Lifecycle : Annual
- Exposure : Full Sun
- Frost Hardiness : Frost Sensitive
- Cultivation Difficulty : Easy
- Adult Height : 30 cm
Sowing & Planting
- Greenhouse Growing : Not Required
- Sowing Depth : 2 cm
- Plant Spacing : 60 cm
- Row Spacing : 120 cm
Maintenance
- Maintenance : Moderate
- Water Requirements : High
Seeds
- Soil Type : Humus-rich
- Soil pH Preference : Neutral
- Pest Sensitivity : Moderate
- Disease Sensitivity : Moderate
- Weed Sensitivity : Moderate
- Pollination : Insect-pollinated
- Propagation : Sowing