[polaris]

Im quite interested in experimenting with cucumbers this year we've got a nice sunny patch that helps awfully nice and warm, but we also tend to get a fair bit of rain now and then.... Can anyone recommend a variety?mi quite fancy one of the miniatures in baskets so I can move them out of the weather if need be but a good sturdy variety could go in the space beside the herbs in the raised beds just as easily.

Any recommendations?

[Coeur de Chene]

I have grown outdoor cucumbers- those with ridged and bumpy skins- with no problems. They taste really cucumbery, much nicer than the insipid supermarket ones. They do need a sunny spot but the tougher skin, that may need to be removed before eating, makes them hardy. You don't need to remove the male flowers from the ridge cucumbers, I generally don't but have had a few bitter ones though this may be because I'd left them a bit too long. I've grown Burpless tasty and Noé.

[Mammyshaz]

It tends to be Burpless But Tasty that I grow too mainly because it grows well inside or out. As said, the skin is tough bit the rest is very tasty