When to plant cucumbers in Worcester: 19 June – 7 September

In Worcester, cucumber: sow for seedlings from 1 May to 10 August; plant into a greenhouse from 29 May to 7 September; plant out into open ground from 19 June to 7 September.

Cucumber in Worcester: soil, season and weather

In Worcester the soil, not frost, sets the date: the last frost is over around 15 April, but the top 7 cm of soil reaches 18 °C — the minimum on the cucumber card — only around 19 June, 65 days later.

Last spring frost	15 April
Top 7 cm of soil at 18 °C	19 June, 65 days after the last frost
Into an unheated greenhouse	29 May – 7 September; May outside: 7.7 °C at night, 16.8 °C by day; card 18–25 °C
First autumn frost	22 November, 156 days after the start
Days in the bed to the first harvest (card)	34
First harvest, if planted in this window	23 July – 11 October
Days left for picking	122
Daylight	16:01 on 22 May, 16:46 on 19 June
Watering outdoors when fruiting (card)	every 2 days; the driest month, August, has 11 rainy days

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

Cucumber in Worcester: care after planting

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

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

26 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 Worcester during the cucumber season

No month of the season averages above the cucumber card's 18–35 °C by day; the warmest, July, averages 21.6 °C. Months that stay below 18 °C even by day on average: October (14.6 °C) and November (10.2 °C). Nights average below 18 °C in every month of the season, from 4.6 °C to 12.8 °C.

Month	Day, °C	Night, °C	Rain, mm	Rainy days	Daylight on the 15th
June	19.9	11	68	12	16:44
July	21.6	12.8	63	12	16:19
August	21.2	12.7	59	11	14:44
September	18.6	10.6	71	12	12:43
October	14.6	8.1	84	13	10:43
November	10.2	4.6	76	13	8:49

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Cucumber in nearby cities

1 of the nearest cities share Worcester's date.

City	Distance	Date	Difference
Birmingham	40 km	20 June – 4 September	1 day later
Coventry	54 km	21 June – 2 September	2 days later
Oxford	82 km	23 June – 8 September	4 days later
Bristol	86 km	19 June – 7 September	same day
Leicester	89 km	21 June – 4 September	2 days later
Stoke-on-Trent	93 km	20 June – 31 August	1 day later

Where to buy cucumber plants and seeds near Worcester

Buy plants ready to set out from 19 June to 7 September (from 29 May to 7 September for an unheated greenhouse); seed for raising your own is sown from 1 May to 10 August. Within 15 km of Worcester OpenStreetMap lists 10 garden centres, 4 plant nurseries, 2 markets and 8 farm shops (collected 28 October 2026).

Worcester Garden Centre — garden centre
3 km
Laylocks Garden Centre — garden centre
5 km
The Farm Emporium — garden centre
9 km
Leigh Sinton 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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