Outdoor variety
Outdoor cucumbers have a tougher, often 'bobbly' skin, but they may be prone to mildew. Cucumbers should be ready to start picking in 4 months and will continue to produce fruit until autumn.
Suggested sowing time:
(Key: sow indoors,
sow outside,
sow outside under cover.)
Cultivars and varieties:
Seeds to sow now:
Indoors or in a greenhouse
Antwerp hollyhock, Fig-leaved hollyhock, Hollyhock
Bristly hollyhock
Outside
What else to plant now:
Apple & pear trees (bare rooted)
Roses (bare rooted)
Cyclamen
Outside under cover
Onion
Pea
Potato Onion