Best time to plant cucumber in Wagga Wagga
Cucumis sativus
Sow cucumber in Wagga Wagga in Nov to Jan.
Cucumber is a frost-tender vine in the gourd family, grown for fruit picked green and crisp before the seeds harden. Plants sprawl or climb, and a trellis saves space and keeps the fruit clean. Types range from short Lebanese and pickling cucumbers to long continental ones. Keep watering steady, as dry spells can make the fruit bitter.
When to sow in Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga, NSW is in the arid zone. The zone also plants in Feb, Aug to Oct, but Wagga Wagga's frost dates make those months risky for a frost-tender crop.
Broadly matches local guides, with some differences.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Wagga Wagga
Frost usually arrives in Wagga Wagga around late April and finishes by mid October. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as early April or as late as early November, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Grow it up a trellis to save room and keep fruit clean, and put the trellis where its shade won't fall on a neighbour.
Growing details
- How to start
- Sow directly or raise seedlings
- Sowing depth
- 2-3cm
- Plant spacing
- 15cm on a trellis, 60-90cm sprawling
- Row spacing
- 90cm
- Germination
- About 10 days
- Time to harvest
- 55 days
- Frost
- Frost tender
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.