When to plant cucumbers in Lugo: 1 June – 19 September

In Lugo, cucumber: sow for seedlings from 13 April to 22 August; plant into a greenhouse from 11 May to 19 September; plant out into open ground from 1 June to 19 September. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Aresa (farm supply, 2 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Cucumber in Lugo: soil, season and weather

In Lugo the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 27 March, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the cucumber card — only around 1 June, 66 days later.

Last spring frost	27 March
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	1 June, 66 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	11 May – 19 September; May outside: 9 °C at night, 18.9 °C by day; card 18–25 °C
First autumn frost	4 December, 186 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	34
First harvest, if planted in this window	5 July – 23 October
Days left for picking	152
Daylight	14:13 on 4 May, 15:08 on 1 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 2 days; the driest month, July, has 5 rainy days

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

Cucumber in Lugo: care after planting

Planted on 1 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

8 June — 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 Lugo during the cucumber season

No month of the season averages above the cucumber card's 18–35 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 25.9 °C. Months that stay below 18 °C even by day on average: November (13.4 °C) and December (11.3 °C). Nights average below 18 °C in every month of the season, from 4.1 °C to 14.6 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	21.6	12.2	72	12	15:20
July	24.8	14.2	18	5	15:04
August	25.9	14.6	24	6	13:58
September	22.5	12.1	53	10	12:33
October	19	10.1	126	13	11:06
November	13.4	6.2	141	15	9:45
December	11.3	4.1	139	15	9:02

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Cucumber in nearby cities

Around Lugo, Vigo is 23 days earlier and A Coruña 4 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Ourense	78 km	1 June – 18 September	same day
A Coruña	79 km	from 5 June	4 days later
Santiago de Compostela	80 km	5 June – 2 October	4 days later
Ponferrada	94 km	1 June – 12 September	same day
Pontevedra	109 km	from 26 May	6 days earlier
Vigo	129 km	from 9 May	23 days earlier

Where to buy cucumber plants and seeds near Lugo

Buy plants ready to set out from 1 June to 19 September (from 11 May to 19 September for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 13 April to 22 August. Within 15 km of Lugo OpenStreetMap lists 2 garden centres, 9 farm-supply shops, 1 plant nursery, 5 markets and 2 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Aresa — farm supply
Avenida de Madrid 187, 27002 Lugo · 2 km
Mercadillo do Parque da Milagrosa — market
Tue, Fri 08:00–15:00 · 2 km · concellodelugo.gal
Garden's — garden centre
14 km · gardensrabade.com
Comercial Agrícola Emilio — farm supply
4 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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