Notes
Trellis on Hortonova or cattle panel down the 30-inch bed center. Straight fruit, scab and mosaic tolerance. Pick small to keep plants loading.
Cultivars / Cucurbits
Marketmore 76
Cucumber · Cucumis sativus
DTM
58 d
134 d occupancy · tender
Rows
1
12 in in-row
Density
1
plants / bed-ft
Yield
8
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$15.84
$2.25 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct or transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 21 d
- Germination
- 5 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 95°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 12 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 1
- In-row
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 12 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 1
- Plants / 50 ft
- 50
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 58 d
- Holding
- 42 d
- Occupancy
- 134 d
- Multicut
- yes · 18 cuts · 2 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 8
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 8 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.10 / $2.25
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.4 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 25
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 109.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.7 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 3.2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1 / 0.4 / 1.6 lb
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-13
- First greenhouse
- 2026-03-25
- First harvest
- 2026-06-12
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 8 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 59 seeds · 50 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $387.20 / $792.00
Companions
bean · lettuce · radish
Avoid
potato · sage