cucumber 'Crystal Lemon'

cucumber or Cucumis sativus 'Crystal Lemon'

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cucumber 'Crystal Lemon'

cucumber or Cucumis sativus 'Crystal Lemon'

  • approx 30 seeds
  • £1.89
  • In stock (shipped within 2-3 working days)
  • 8.5cm pot
  • £6.99
  • available to order from autumn
  • 2 + 1 FREE 8.5cm pots
  • £13.98 £20.97
  • available to order from autumn
  • 2 + 1 FREE 9cm pots
  • £13.98 £20.97
  • available to order from autumn
Delivery options
  • Seed Packets (only) £2.95
  • Named Day £10.95
  • Position: Full sun
  • Soil: Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
  • Hardiness: Tender (will need protection)


The perfect cucumber for popping in the kids' lunchboxes for a healthy snack, this vigorous climber is smothered in small, round fruits like yellow tennis balls for months in late summer. It's an easy-going plant, as happy outside as under cover, and as well as being very pretty, the flavour is excellent – sweet, mild, and very juicy.


Garden care:
Once all threat of frost has passed, harden off carefully and plant into the final growing site allowing 60cm between plants. Protect young plants against slugs. Grow up supports such as hazel wigwams or trellis to show off the fruit and keep plants off the ground.


  • Sowing instructions:
    Sow three or four seeds into a 9cm pot of seed compost in late spring and keep warm in a propagator or on a sunny windowsill. Once seedlings have produced three true leaves, pot on individually.


  • Sow: April to June


  • Harvest: July to September
    • Pets: TOXIC if eaten

    Goes well with