Cucumber advice

[Miichael]

I've been asking a lot of questions recently I think, but I keep getting very helpful answers so I hope you don't all mind another one.

I fancy growing cucumbers this years, as the kids love them. I grew them once before but didn't realise they are meant to grow up something. I haven't found any good advice of how much they like to grow, upwards. I have a plant of Tiny Tot that I was intending to try outside along with some Cucubrits I grew from seed. Would a rose arch be a completely stupid thing to grow these on? Wilko have a £6 one that could span the ends of two of my beds, freeing up space for other plants.

I freely admit part of the appeal is that this could loo very nice, as well as giving the children a way of picking something without walking all over my beds!

[Mr Bones]

Hi Miichael, a rose arch would be ideal, I grow my outside cukes up a piece of goalpost net about a metre tall. Don't know if Tiny Tot is an outside variety, if not there's still time to sow more seed. Marketmore is a good reliable outsider as is Burpless (the name alone should appeal to kids )

[Mr Bones]

Just looked up Tiny Tot, suitable for outside and grows to about 3m so the rose arch should be perfect.
Cucumber 'Cucino' F1 Hybrid - Salad Seeds - Thompson & Morgan
Where abouts are you? (Northern Scotland might struggle with outside cukes, south of France they'd be great)

[Lumpy]

I grow Marketmore in large pots that are then sttod on top of another pot (upside down) so that they grow down instead of up.

[vixylix]

I grow outdoor cukes in Leeds - although my last garden was much more sheltered than my new garden - I might be eating my words rather than the cukes

[Jungle Jane]

You can tie cucumber plants to any support a rose arch sounds really good but help it along with bits of string,they're tendrils help them climb but tie them on to begin with & continually if you want,runner beans grow well with cucumber & would definitely cover the top of the arch,my outside cucumbers - cucino & diva have only grown to around five foot tall.

[Penellype]

There are apparently 2 sorts of cucumbers (apart from all female and male-female ones)- some grow mainly on a single stem with very few side shoots - cucino is one of these. The previous variety I grew was Vega which is a bush variety with loads of sideshoots. I'm not sure how you tell as the packets don't seem to mention this fairly important fact. Cucino would reach the top of a rose arch, vega wouldn't.

[Snadger]

Ridge cucumbers, the more spikey tasty type, are grown on a ridge of soil and don't need to climb.

[Miichael]

Just looked up Tiny Tot, suitable for outside and grows to about 3m so the rose arch should be perfect.
Cucumber 'Cucino' F1 Hybrid - Salad Seeds - Thompson & Morgan
Where abouts are you? (Northern Scotland might struggle with outside cukes, south of France they'd be great)

I'm in Bristol, and generally it's pretty good weather here so hoping will be okay.

Jungle Jane, I'd wondered about that, thank you!

Penellype, good to know, strange that is mentioned when buying them!

Thank you all!