Lemon Cucumber – 10 Seeds

Lemon Cucumber Seeds. Cucumis sativus ‘Lemon’ is also known as Apple Cucumbers, Dosakai Suurlemoen Komkommer(Afr.)

Attractive heirloom cucumbers are small and round with lemon colored skin. The lime-green flesh is very mild taste, sweet and never bitter. Lemon cucumber does not have a lemon taste, only color, but has a thin, tender skin with a flavor a little milder than a regular cucumber’s. Very nice for slicing and easy to digest. Lemon cucumber seeds produce a vigorous long vine that does well on a trellis or fence.

This productive variety was introduced to the US market from Australia by Samuel Wilson in 1894. Plants may become quite sprawly, but the fruit production is incredibly vigorous. Be sure to keep plants carefully picked so that no fruits are allowed to mature on the vine. This will lengthen the fruiting period.

Growing Lemon Cucumber

Indoor Sowing: Late Winter and Early Spring.

Direct Sowing: Spring and Early Summer.

• Cucumbers need very warm soil to germinate. Optimal soil temperature for germination (and transplanting): 15-30°C
• Direct Sow 3-4 seeds 2cm  deep in each spot you want a plant to grow.
• Thin to the strongest seedling.
• Space plants 23cm apart in rows 90cm apart.
• Or start transplants indoors in individual peat or coir pots 3-4 weeks before transplanting out into warm soil. If starting indoors, use bottom heat.
• Transplant when the plants develop their third true leaf. If the plants are too big, they may experience transplant shock.
• Choose a warm, well-drained soil. Raised beds work well. Add dolomite lime and compost or well-rotted manure to the bed and ½-1 cup of complete organic fertilizer mixed into the soil beneath each transplant.
• Cucumbers are vigorous and need lots of nutrition and water. Try to water the soil only, keeping the leaves as dry as possible.
• Almost all cucumbers benefit from being trained onto a trellis of some kind.