When to plant cucumbers in Magdeburg: 3 June – 3 September

In Magdeburg, cucumber: sow for seedlings from 15 April to 6 August; plant into a greenhouse from 13 May to 3 September; plant out into open ground from 3 June to 3 September. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Gärtnerei Gerber (garden centre, 3 km) and Baumschule Gustav Beyme (plant nursery, 7 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Cucumber in Magdeburg: soil, season and weather

In Magdeburg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 5 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the cucumber card — only around 3 June, 59 days later.

Last spring frost	5 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	3 June, 59 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	13 May – 3 September; May outside: 9.4 °C at night, 19.2 °C by day; card 18–25 °C
First autumn frost	18 November, 168 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	34
First harvest, if planted in this window	7 July – 7 October
Days left for picking	134
Daylight	15:11 on 6 May, 16:28 on 3 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 2 days; the driest month, November, has 10 rainy days

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

Cucumber in Magdeburg: care after planting

Planted on 3 June: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

10 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 Magdeburg during the cucumber season

No month of the season averages above the cucumber card's 18–35 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 24.9 °C. Months that stay below 18 °C even by day on average: October (15.1 °C) and November (8.7 °C). Nights average below 18 °C in every month of the season, from 3.3 °C to 15.2 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	24.3	14.1	53	9	16:44
July	24.5	15	60	10	16:18
August	24.9	15.2	52	10	14:43
September	20.9	12	47	8	12:43
October	15.1	8.3	58	12	10:44
November	8.7	3.3	45	10	8:50

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Cucumber in nearby cities

Around Magdeburg, Berlin is 3 days earlier and Erfurt 6 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Leipzig	102 km	5 June – 2 September	2 days later
Potsdam	102 km	3 June – 6 September	same day
Berlin	129 km	31 May – 4 September	3 days earlier
Hanover	132 km	7 June – 6 September	4 days later
Erfurt	134 km	9 June – 23 August	6 days later
Dresden	189 km	5 June – 3 September	2 days later

Where to buy cucumber plants and seeds near Magdeburg

Buy plants ready to set out from 3 June to 3 September (from 13 May to 3 September for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 15 April to 6 August. Within 15 km of Magdeburg OpenStreetMap lists 6 garden centres, 4 farm-supply shops, 6 plant nurseries, 1 market and 8 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

tulpina — garden centre
Wilhelm-Dümling-Straße 37, 39218 Schönebeck (Elbe) · 15 km
Gärtnerei Gerber — garden centre
Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00; Sat 09:00–14:00 · 3 km
Floragarten Weinreich — plant nursery
Neue Straße 1, 39326 Wolmirstedt · 13 km · floragarten-weinreich.de
Baumschule Gustav Beyme — plant nursery
May–Sept: Thu 15:00–17:30; Sat 10:00–12:00; Sept 15–Mar 31: Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00; Sat 09:00–13:00 · 7 km · baumschule-beyme.de

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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