{"id":14986,"date":"2025-08-29T14:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=14986"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T23:17:38","slug":"growing-cucumbers-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/growing-cucumbers-in-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing cucumbers in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Even on a hot summer day, I can go into the yard and pick a cucumber and bite into it and feel cooled and refreshed. How does that work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no other vegetable quite like a cuke. I need to have them in my summer garden. Here\u2019s how I go about accomplishing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Varieties<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used to have trouble with my cucumbers being bitter, but I solved that by simply growing the right varieties. Some varieties of cucumbers are never bitter — no matter how hot the weather, no matter how imperfect your watering — so these are the only kinds I grow nowadays. Favorites include Green Fingers<\/a>, Party Time<\/a>, Summer Dance<\/a>, and Sweet Slice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(See my post on Green Fingers here<\/a>. Also, see my post reviewing Summer Dance and Sweet Slice here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 was my first summer growing Party Time and, along with Green Fingers, I found that it makes a perfect snacking cuke for kids as it is small and spineless. Party Time also proved to be among the most productive and long-lived of the varieties I grew beside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The seeds of Party Time are nearly imperceptible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Party Time compared to a Japanese-type cucumber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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What’s neat about the Japanese cucumbers is not only their size but also that they remain very palatable and the preferred variety of one of my children.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My family likes pickles so I also grow some other varieties for that. It doesn\u2019t matter if those varieties taste bitter if eaten fresh because the pickling process removes that. For pickles I like the varieties Alibi and National Pickling. These can both be eaten fresh too, but their skin is thicker and more spiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some cucumber varieties are not really cucumbers. True cucumbers are classified as Cucumis sativus<\/em>, but there are similar plants classified as Cucumis melo<\/em> (the same genus and species name as melons). Some call these cucumber-melons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have grown one such cucumber-melon, kindly sent to me by Jay of Cucumber Shop<\/a>. The variety goes by the name Striped Carosello Leccese<\/a>, or Meloncella Fasciata. It is apparently an old variety from Southern Italy. Here is a video of Jay talking about the variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Striped Carosello Leccese plants grow well and produce well. The fruit is attractive with its stripes. It has no spines like some cucumbers do, but it does have fuzz on the skin. The texture is crisp and the flavor very mildly sweet. It also doesn’t have the sticky taste that cucumbers can have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Striped Carosello Leccese cucumber-melon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Note the difference in the leaf shape of the Striped Carosello Leccese compared to the regular cucumber vine in the upper left corner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Watering and bitterness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I water cucumbers just like my other vegetables. (See this watering cheat sheet<\/a> for tips.) And I water them amply so that they grow and produce well; however, as alluded to above, I no longer attempt to use watering as a way to avoid bitterness. That never worked for me despite the claims by some that bitterness in cucumbers is related to insufficient or \u201cuneven\u201d watering (a vague term that I find unhelpful).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I use variety choice to avoid bitterness, and that works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you do end up with bitter cucumbers, you can cut off the ends and peel them since the ends and the skin is where most bitterness accumulates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sowing and planting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cucumbers like warm weather. They don\u2019t grow through the winter well in Southern California. Plant them as early as April (sow them in containers indoors as early as March), and plant them as late as July (sowing in June). You can plant a bit earlier or later if you want to gamble on the weather, but April through July is reliable every year for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some details<\/a> about optimum air and soil temperatures for cucumbers and some information about the commercial growing practices in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cucumber varieties differ in the size of their plants and vining tendency. Some are called \u201cbush\u201d types because they don\u2019t run very far. But for most regular cucumber varieties a space of about 1.5 feet between plants is sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cucumbers growing in a row on the ground at Roy Wilburn’s farm.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I usually don\u2019t grow my cucumbers in a row with my other vegetables though. As with other vining plants like melons and pumpkins, I prefer to grow cucumbers under the south sides of my fruit trees since there\u2019s more space for them to spread there. (See my post, \u201cGrowing vegetables under fruit trees.\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cucumbers growing under a mandarin tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Supporting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cucumber vines have tendrils and can climb. Giving them something to climb on has benefits: the cukes are easier to pick, they are less often munched by bugs, and it saves ground space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cucumbers can climb on string, a net, a tomato cage, a chain link fence, and an apple tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cucumber climbing my chain link fence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cucumber climbing my Fuji apple tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pests and diseases<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main enemy of my cucumber plants in the past few years has been a microscopic creature that lives in the dirt: the root knot nematode. Cucumber roots are very susceptible to these tiny worm-like animals that cause the roots not to function well, and therefore hurt the plant growing above ground. (See my post, \u201cWhat are root knot nematodes?\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My main solution has been to not grow cucumbers where I know the dirt has root knot nematodes. I\u2019m aware of no cucumber varieties with RKN resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of little insects bother cucumbers from time to time, such as aphids and whiteflies. There are concoctions you can buy to spray on these pests. I don\u2019t spray but I do sometimes blast the plants with water to try to keep those insect populations down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powdery mildew also infects cucumbers. This fungus causes white spots on the leaves. There are concoctions you can buy to spray on powdery mildew also, but if you find this disease on your plants often you should first be sure to plant varieties that are resistant. Sweet-Slice and Summer Dance claim resistance to PM, and I’ve never seen it on those varieties in my yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harvesting and storing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can pick cucumbers when they\u2019re only a couple inches long; they\u2019re already crisp and tasty. My kids do this. Or you can wait until they\u2019re six or more inches long \u2013 all varieties grow to different lengths. Just make sure you pick them before the skin yellows (except for lemon cucumbers, of course).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fresh cukes store well in the fridge for over a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your plant is pumping out more cukes than you can eat fresh, make some pickles. Easy pickle recipes are everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alibi makes a good pickle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In summer, I like to make a bunch of little cucumber stacks for lunch by using mostly garden produce: tomato, avocado, cheese, basil, and . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. . . right after I made these and took a picture, I realized that I had forgotten the red onion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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One day a few summers back, my son was watering some vegetables with me and asked, \u201cDad, what\u2019s your favorite vegetable?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,” I said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMine is cucumbers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good choice<\/em>, I thought. Good choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This summer he often eats his cukes under this “umbrella” we designed from a cucumber vine climbing up into an apricot tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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