When to plant cucumbers in Nuremberg: 3 June – 19 August

In Nuremberg, cucumber: sow for seedlings from 15 April to 22 July; plant into a greenhouse from 13 May to 19 August; plant out into open ground from 3 June to 19 August. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Pflanzen Kölle (garden centre, 3 km) and Dehner (garden centre, 4 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Cucumber in Nuremberg: soil, season and weather

In Nuremberg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 29 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the cucumber card — only around 3 June, 35 days later.

Last spring frost	29 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	3 June, 35 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	13 May – 19 August; May outside: 8.1 °C at night, 19 °C by day; card 18–25 °C
First autumn frost	3 November, 153 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	34
First harvest, if planted in this window	7 July – 22 September
Days left for picking	119
Daylight	14:53 on 6 May, 16:02 on 3 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 2 days; the driest month, November, has 11 rainy days

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

Cucumber in Nuremberg: 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 Nuremberg during the cucumber season

No month of the season averages above the cucumber card's 18–35 °C by day; the warmest, August, averages 25.2 °C. Months that stay below 18 °C even by day on average: October (15.2 °C) and November (8.2 °C). Nights average below 18 °C in every month of the season, from 1.6 °C to 14 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	24.4	13	66	11	16:15
July	25.1	13.9	80	13	15:53
August	25.2	14	81	11	14:28
September	20.6	10.2	62	10	12:40
October	15.2	6.5	65	12	10:51
November	8.2	1.6	57	11	9:08

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Cucumber in nearby cities

All the nearest cities on our list plant cucumber later than Nuremberg; the closest date is in Stuttgart, 2 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Regensburg	89 km	14 June – 23 August	11 days later
Augsburg	121 km	13 June – 25 August	10 days later
Munich	150 km	8 June – 25 August	5 days later
Stuttgart	157 km	5 June – 24 August	2 days later
Plzeň	169 km	18 June – 21 August	15 days later
Erfurt	170 km	9 June – 23 August	6 days later

Where to buy cucumber plants and seeds near Nuremberg

Buy plants ready to set out from 3 June to 19 August (from 13 May to 19 August for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 15 April to 22 July. Within 15 km of Nuremberg OpenStreetMap lists 28 garden centres, 1 farm-supply shop, 2 plant nurseries, 15 markets and 52 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Pflanzen Kölle — garden centre
Geisseestraße 65, 90439 Nürnberg · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00; Sun 10:00–12:00 · 3 km · pflanzen-koelle.de
Dehner — garden centre
Regensburger Straße 330, 90480 Nürnberg · Mon–Sat 08:00–20:00 · 4 km · dehner.de
Dehner — garden centre
Waldstraße 82-86, 90763 Fürth · Mon–Sat 09:00–19:00 · 5 km · dehner.de
Gärtnerei Pfann — garden centre
Braunsbacher Weg 10, 90427 Nürnberg · Mon–Fri 08:00–13:00, 14:00–18:00; Sat 08:00–13:00 · 6 km · blumengaertnerei-pfann.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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