Nova Scotia’s frost-free window runs from a mean last spring frost of May 7 to a mean first fall frost of October 18, both measured at Halifax Stanfield.

Nova Scotia’s cool, humid summers (zero days a year averaging above 90°F at the Halifax reference station) favor fast-maturing pickling and bush…

In the Northwest Territories, cucumbers work best as transplants set out around the last week of May, with harvest wrapping up by mid-September.

The type that works in Northwest Territories is fast, compact, and grown under some form of cover: bush or short-vine cucumbers, ideally parthenocarpic…

Direct-seed or transplant cucumbers only after the danger of frost has passed and the soil has warmed, which in the Fargo area falls between May 4 and…

Short-season types win in North Dakota, period. Pickling cucumbers and compact bush slicers built to mature in the 50-to-70-day range fit the state’s…

North Carolina gardeners can direct-sow cucumbers once the frost risk drops into the 30-70% band, which for the Piedmont runs March 23 to April 5.

North Carolina’s long frost-free stretch means almost any cucumber type has time to mature here.

New York’s frost dates put the safe cucumber-planting window in mid-to-late May for New York City, and later than that for anywhere colder inland.

New York’s cucumber answer depends on where in the state a garden sits: the frost-free window in New York City runs roughly eight months, while the North…