When to plant cucumbers in Orenburg: 27 May – 27 July

In Orenburg, cucumber: sow for seedlings from 8 April to 29 June; plant into a greenhouse from 6 May to 27 July; plant out into open ground from 27 May to 27 July. For plants and seeds, the places nearby include Центр Садовода (farm supply, 6 km) and Центр Садовода (farm supply, 7 km); addresses and opening hours are below.

Cucumber in Orenburg: soil, season and weather

In Orenburg the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 25 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the cucumber card — only around 27 May, 32 days later.

Last spring frost	25 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	27 May, 32 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	6 May – 27 July; May outside: 8.8 °C at night, 22 °C by day; card 18–25 °C
First autumn frost	11 October, 137 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	34
First harvest, if planted in this window	30 June – 30 August
Days left for picking	103
Daylight	14:44 on 29 April, 16:10 on 27 May
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 2 days; the driest month, August, has 5 rainy days

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

Cucumber in Orenburg: care after planting

Planted on 27 May: in the first weeks water every 4 days.

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

3 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 Orenburg during the cucumber season

No month of the season averages above the cucumber card's 18–35 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 29.4 °C. Months that stay below 18 °C even by day on average: October (11.5 °C). Nights average below 18 °C in every month of the season, from 2.4 °C to 16.7 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
May	22	8.8	40	7	15:37
June	26.4	13.9	38	7	16:39
July	29.4	16.7	38	6	16:15
August	28.3	15.3	27	5	14:41
September	19.9	8.5	31	6	12:43
October	11.5	2.4	43	8	10:45

ERA5 2016–2025, Open-Meteo

Cucumber in nearby cities

Around Orenburg, Oral (Uralsk) is 1 day earlier and Sterlitamak 6 days later.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Sterlitamak	216 km	2 June – 22 July	6 days later
Aktobe	220 km	28 May – 25 July	1 day later
Oral (Uralsk)	260 km	26 May – 29 July	1 day earlier
Magnitogorsk	320 km	2 June – 12 July	6 days later
Ufa	335 km	31 May – 17 July	4 days later
Samara	371 km	31 May – 6 August	4 days later

Where to buy cucumber plants and seeds near Orenburg

Buy plants ready to set out from 27 May to 27 July (from 6 May to 27 July for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 8 April to 29 June. Within 15 km of Orenburg OpenStreetMap lists 11 farm-supply shops, 11 markets and 37 farm shops (collected 27 October 2026).

Центр Садовода — farm supply
Mon–Sun 09:00–20:00 · 6 km · centr-sadovoda.ru
Центр Садовода — farm supply
Mon–Sun 09:00–20:00 · 7 km · centr-sadovoda.ru
Центр Садовода — farm supply
Mon–Sun 09:00–20:00 · 8 km · centr-sadovoda.ru
Центр Садовода — farm supply
Mon–Sun 09:00–20:00 · 9 km · centr-sadovoda.ru

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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