When to plant cucumbers in Aberdeen: 19 July – 5 September

In Aberdeen, cucumber: sow for seedlings from 31 May to 8 August; plant into a greenhouse from 28 June to 5 September; plant out into open ground from 19 July to 5 September. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Country Ways (farm shop, 1 km) and The Green House (garden centre, 1 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Cucumber in Aberdeen: soil, season and weather

In Aberdeen the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 10 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the cucumber card — only around 19 July, 100 days later.

Last spring frost	10 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	19 July, 100 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	28 June – 5 September; June outside: 9.6 °C at night, 16.2 °C by day; card 18–25 °C
First autumn frost	20 November, 124 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	34
First harvest, if planted in this window	22 August – 9 October
Days left for picking	90
Daylight	17:56 on 21 June, 17:07 on 19 July
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 2 days; the driest month, September, has 14 rainy days

The same dates in Aberdeen hold for Bell Pepper, Eggplant, Zucchini, Pumpkin and Watermelon.

Cucumber in Aberdeen: care after planting

Planted on 19 July: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

Feeding, by the card’s schedule from that day:

26 July — feed: nitrogen

Pests and diseases of cucumber to watch for:

Dates count from the first planting day of the window above; a later planting moves them by as many days.

Weather in Aberdeen during the cucumber season

No month of the season averages above the cucumber card's 18–35 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 17.8 °C. Months that stay below 18 °C even by day on average: July–November (9–17.8 °C). Nights average below 18 °C in every month of the season, from 4.4 °C to 11.5 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
July	17.8	11.5	103	18	17:19
August	17.7	11.4	74	15	15:18
September	15.8	9.9	68	14	12:51
October	12.7	7.6	108	16	10:27
November	9	4.4	87	15	8:06

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Cucumber in nearby cities

Around Aberdeen, Edinburgh is 13 days earlier and Dundee 2 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Dundee	91 km	21 July – 28 August	2 days later
Perth (United Kingdom)	115 km	19 July – 27 August	same day
Inverness	133 km	17 July – 29 August	2 days earlier
Edinburgh	148 km	6 July – 25 August	13 days earlier
Stirling	160 km	11 July – 25 August	8 days earlier
Glasgow	194 km	21 July – 27 August	2 days later

Where to buy cucumber plants and seeds near Aberdeen

Buy plants ready to set out from 19 July to 5 September (from 28 June to 5 September for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 31 May to 8 August. Within 15 km of Aberdeen OpenStreetMap lists 7 garden centres, 3 plant nurseries and 2 farm shops (collected 20 October 2026).

The Green House — garden centre
Bon Accord Centre, AB25 1HZ Aberdeen · 1 km
Forest Farm Organic Dairy — farm shop
Kinellar, AB21 0SH Aberdeen · Mon 15:00–20:00 "Gelateria", Thu–Fri 12:00–20:00 "Gelateria", Mon 15:30+ "live milking", Thu–Sun 15:30+ "live milking", Mon 08:00–20:00 "milk station", Thu–Sun 08:00–20:00 "milk station" · 14 km · forestfarmdairy.co.uk
Country Ways — farm shop
Holburn Street 111-115, AB10 6BQ Aberdeen · 1 km · countryways.com
Parkhill Garden Centre — garden centre
10 km

Each window starts on the Greenly calendar date and ends on the last day that still leaves the crop’s days to harvest (from its card) before the average first autumn frost, plus six weeks of picking for crops harvested over weeks (tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, cucumbers, courgettes, pumpkins, watermelons, beans) — our rule; earlier in the window is safer.

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