Cucumber · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
When to plant cucumbers in Mumbai
Main outdoor window
not outdoors here
The window this page is built around.
Timed from last spring frost
no spring frost
In Mumbai, on your chosen risk.
First autumn frost
no autumn frost
The far end of the outdoor season.
The average last frost. Half of all years are later than this.
Step by step in Mumbai
Each window is a range, not a single day. Earlier in the range buys you a longer season; later in it buys you a safer one.
Cucumbers through the year
Against the frost risk in Mumbai
Why these dates
Only three weeks indoors: cucumbers hate root disturbance, so sow into modules or pots you can plant whole. A second sowing three weeks after the first extends picking by a month.
Cold soil rots cucumber seed before it germinates. If soil is below 18C, wait - the seed is cheaper than the fortnight you would lose.
Seed packets and extension guides express timing as weeks either side of the last spring frost, because that is the only reference point that travels. Cucumbers are timed from 3 weeks before that frost for an indoor start, with planting out 2 weeks after it, and this page simply resolves those offsets against the frost date computed for Mumbai.
Also in Mumbai
Other vegetables to time
Growing cucumbers in Mumbai
How much frost will cucumbers tolerate?
Cold soil rots cucumber seed before it germinates. If soil is below 18C, wait - the seed is cheaper than the fortnight you would lose.