Cucumber Ashley Seeds

Grow crisp dark-green Ashley cucumbers for fresh slices, salads and quick pickles. This warm-season Cucumis sativus vine produces cylindrical fruit around 20 cm long.

Ready to grow your own Ashley cucumbers? Follow our step-by-step Cucumber Grow Guide for Ashley for warm sowing, germination, trellising, pollination and harvest advice.

Quick Grow Facts

• Plant Type: Warm-season annual vegetable vine
• Cultivar: Ashley slicing cucumber
• Scientific Name: Cucumis sativus
• Seed Form: Raw, unpelleted seed; sale form does not confirm chemical-treatment status
• Pack Sizes: 10 g, 100 g and 500 g raw seed
• Seed Quantity: Approximately 350 seeds per 10 g under the current listing
• Pretreatment: None; sow dry unless the delivered lot label says otherwise
• General Sowing Time: Sow after frost into warm soil, usually September–December in frost districts; use cooler local windows in subtropical heat
• Position: Full sun
• Method: Warm direct sow preferred; transplant only a young intact plug before roots bind
• Sow Depth: 5 mm under the current supplier and packet instruction; keep the shallow cover evenly moist
• Germination: 7–14 days at a 20–25°C seed-zone target; do not direct sow below about 18°C
• Growth Form: Vigorous vine; train on a sturdy 1.5–2 m trellis. Routine pinching is unnecessary.
• Final Spacing: 25 cm between plants and 150 cm between trellised rows; widen ground-grown vines to at least 40 cm × 160–200 cm
• Pollination: Provide bee access; early male flowers before female flowers are normal
• Harvest: Use the current packet's 65–70-day planning window and pick firm dark-green fruit at about 20 cm

Why Grow Ashley

• Firm, crisp fruit works well for slicing and fresh meals.
• The medium-length fruit is easy to support on a home-garden trellis.
• Regular picking encourages continued flowering and fruit set.
• Ashley is a long-established slicing cultivar suited to warm-season field growing.

Garden Uses

Slice young fruit into salads and sandwiches, serve it fresh with dips or use it for quick refrigerator pickles.

Growing Notes

• Keep moisture even from flowering through fruit fill; drought can cause narrow ends, crooked fruit and bitterness.
• Water at soil level in the morning and keep foliage well aired to reduce downy mildew pressure.
• Do not rely on Ashley's historic mildew breeding alone; newer disease populations can overcome old resistance.
• Pick every one to two days in peak production before fruit becomes pale, swollen or seedy.

Seed safety: Raw seed is the unpelleted sale form, not proof of untreated seed. Do not eat seed or use it for feed, sprouts or microgreens; follow the delivered lot label.

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