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Cucumber 'Helena'
'Helena' is a parthencarpic, greenhouse cucumber variety with excellent taste and texture. Plants form long, dark green fruits with a smooth skin. This variety if very high yielding. Each pack contains 5 organic seeds. More details below.
Organic 'Helena' Cucumber Seeds
‘Helena’ cucumbers are a parthenocarpic variety, meaning that it produces seedless fruits. Under normal growing conditions only female flowers are produced.
Growing schedule: Sow in pots from mid-March to May for planting in final position under glass or plastic from late May once all risk of frost has passed.
Sowing depth: 2cm
Germination: The ideal germination temperature is 23-26 °C.
Planting distance: 30-40 cm between plants with 100-150 cm between rows
Growing conditions: Cucumbers like full sun and rich moist well-drained soil. To avoid waterlogged conditions around the roots, cucumbers can be planted into small mounds or raised ridges. Cucumbers are frost sensitive.
Ongoing care:
- Provide support for cucumbers to grow upward.
- Keep soil moist as cucumbers suffer when allowed to dry out completely. Mulch well and dampen the soil and paths nearby on very hot days.
- Use Horsetail to spray the plants and ground to prevent mildew and fungi.
- Water with high potash feed such as Vinasse every two weeks to support growth and fruiting.
Harvest: Pick all ripe cucumber fruits off the vine as they mature. Leaving mature fruits on the vine will cause the plant to stop producing. Harvest from July onwards until first frost.
Number of seeds: Each packet contains 5 organic seeds.
Life Cycle | Annual |
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