In coastal Maine, the safe window to put cucumber seedlings or seeds in the ground runs from roughly the first week of May through early June, once the…

The best cucumber choice for Maine gardens comes down to type, not brand names: fast-maturing bush pickling types and early slicing types outperform…

Cucumbers in Louisiana go in the ground once the frost risk from the January window has passed, and the real deadline isn’t the next winter, it’s the…

Cucumbers in Louisiana succeed or fail based on heat tolerance, not frost dates.

In most of Kentucky, cucumbers go in the ground somewhere between mid-April and mid-May, once the soil has warmed past the last frost window of March 24…

Kentucky’s frost-free season, running from roughly the last week of March or first week of April to early-to-mid November, gives cucumbers plenty of room…

Cucumbers go into Kansas soil after the last spring frost clears, and the reference station near Wichita puts that between April 4 and April 18.

Kansas summers push cucumbers hard, and that’s what should drive variety choice more than anything else.

Cucumbers go into Iowa ground after the last spring frost, once the soil has actually warmed, not just once the calendar says frost risk has dropped.

Iowa’s growing season runs long enough for nearly every cucumber type, from bush plants tucked into a raised bed to vining slicers trained up a trellis.