How many cucumber plants?!

[mic]

Hi

Last year I grew 3 plants and had a nice harvest. This year I'm doing 7 cucumber and 7 cucamelon which will all go in the greenhouse. I'm thinking a little overkill but we do like em.

How many do you grow?

[johnjohn]

3 as well, 1xFemspot, 1xPassandra, 1xCarmen all in the polytunnel. Carmen was rubbish, other 2 were great. Never done cucamelon but like the idea. Hope you're neighbours like cucumbers

[Baldy]

Mine seem to have a tendency for hari-kari so I'll be sowing about 20 marketmore and 20 as yet to be decided in the honest expectation of only seeing 2 or 3 plants make it through to harvest.

Perhaps it's me!

[bramble]

Mic, depends on how many in the family eat cucumbers. There are just the two of us and three plants give us an adequate supply.

[DannyK]

Like Bramble three cucumber plants were sufficient for two of us. I ended up googling recipes for cucumbers and made loads of soup.

[happyhumph]

We had 5 'waotoma' between two adults and two young children (2&6 last year) which was about right. Might do 6 this year as children a year older and planning some pickling.

[Jungle Jane]

I usually have about 6 plants,carman in the house by the patio door & miniature varieties-diva,cucino outside. I did grow a couple of plants in the walk in blowaway a couple of years ago,they did alright. My parents like the mini cucumbers a lot & I had a good supply. This year I'll probably grow about 6 plants at mine (& 4 plants at my parents).
If you have problems try sowing the seed on its side so it doesn't rot & water from below if you can to keep water away from the stem....

[Bren In Pots]

I grow 4 Marketmore in my GH, 2 in the border and two in pots on self watering mat that gives us cucs to eat and some to turn into pickle.

[Dalrimple]

last yr i grew 6 at home and 6 down the alotment ,all out side in buckets those down home where on a south facing wall up 6 ft canes and the lotty ones grew on steel mesh panles 5ft high &20ins wide facing west ,I filled the buckets 3/4 way up with fresh FM and covered with soil ,the plants where grown in 3inch pots that had the bottoms cut off and went into the soil level with bucket top ,I watered into the pot and we had a great crop plenty for us and friends , I grew Marketmore & Perfection and I will be doing the same again this year, just to ad I buried the buckets into the ground about 3 inches and fixed the panels to the handels with tie raps , also 2 canes per bucket at home . atb Dal

[Penellype]

2 cucino in my friend's greenhouse and 2 outdoors at home keeps me and my friend well supplied with small cucumbers.