Cucumber 'Sumter'

A full sun position will ensure your plant thrives and remember to water often. Keep in mind when planting that Sumter is thought of as tender, so remember to ensure that temperatures are mild before moving outdoors. Try to keep the ph of your soil between the range of 5.5 and 6.8 as Sumter likes to be in weakly acidic soil.

Aim to sow 0.47 inches (1.2 cm) deep and try to ensure a gap of at least 11.7 inches (30.0 cm). Soil temperature should be kept higher than 16°C / 61°F to ensure good germination.

By our calculations, you should look at sowing Sumter about 14 days after your last frost date.

Ensure that temperatures are mild and all chance of frost has passed before planting out, as Sumter is a tender plant.

This variety tends to be ready for harvesting by late spring.

Hybridized by Clemson Agricultural Experiment Station; Year of Registration or Introduction: 1973. Patent now expired, so this also may be considered OP. See trivia below for explanation. ¹

Plant patents on hybrids only last 20 yrs, this is no longer patented, ever since 1994. Therefore, seeds have been saved (legally) and OP versions of this cultivar exist from such seedsaving. :)

Sumter Hybrid

¹ http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/70644/