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.)
Seeds to sow now:
Indoors or in a heated greenhouse
Cress
Outside
Alpine poppy
Antwerp hollyhock, Fig-leaved hollyhock, Hollyhock
Aubretia, Rock cress, Aubrieta, Aubrietia
Bristly hollyhock
Cabbage
Cress
Larkspur
Normandy sorrel
Onion
Radish
Outside under cover
Sweet pea