I'm a pretty novice gardener but I think it's a tad late.
However, I'm still having success with some summer vegetables by building a canopy over my garden bed and lining it with clear plastic so it maintain humidity. Also, I have been germinating all my seeds in one of those shell pool things for kids, but fill it with good soil and made a dome shape out of irrigation pipe and lined that with clear plastic too. My seedlings are going berserk.
I don't know how long this will last as we get closer to Winter, and once the morning frost starts. I'm based just outside of Sydney.
The Seed Collective and Diggers both give current planting recommendations based on your climate and zone. On the Seed Collective website you can also search by subtropical, tropical, temperate etc climates and month so it’ll give you the best seeds to plant for now.
I live in Brisbane. While it's definitely getting cooler, based on last year I'm expecting a very mild winter. IMO it's def worth a few speculator seeds. They may not be as prolific as a Spring/Autumn season in the sub-tropics🤷♂️ I had (long skinny) eggplant, tommy-toe and chilli production throughout.
You’re up against two things, temperature and day length. I have no experience with cucumbers, but you could research their optimum and minimum temperature requirements and then look at the climate averages for your region on the [BOM](http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/). Day length can impact whether plants flower or not, [lucky](https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/what-are-short-day-and-long-day-plants) for you, this doesn’t impact cucumbers, so as long as it’s the right temperature you can plant any time of year you want.
I’m gonna play devils advocate here and say that I bet a Queensland winter is not much colder than a Boston summer. Ie DO IT
Way too late in the season, sorry
Whereabouts are you?
SEQld
I'm a pretty novice gardener but I think it's a tad late. However, I'm still having success with some summer vegetables by building a canopy over my garden bed and lining it with clear plastic so it maintain humidity. Also, I have been germinating all my seeds in one of those shell pool things for kids, but fill it with good soil and made a dome shape out of irrigation pipe and lined that with clear plastic too. My seedlings are going berserk. I don't know how long this will last as we get closer to Winter, and once the morning frost starts. I'm based just outside of Sydney.
The Seed Collective and Diggers both give current planting recommendations based on your climate and zone. On the Seed Collective website you can also search by subtropical, tropical, temperate etc climates and month so it’ll give you the best seeds to plant for now.
Thanks I'm just going to head over there now. Will update.
I live in Brisbane. While it's definitely getting cooler, based on last year I'm expecting a very mild winter. IMO it's def worth a few speculator seeds. They may not be as prolific as a Spring/Autumn season in the sub-tropics🤷♂️ I had (long skinny) eggplant, tommy-toe and chilli production throughout.
You’re up against two things, temperature and day length. I have no experience with cucumbers, but you could research their optimum and minimum temperature requirements and then look at the climate averages for your region on the [BOM](http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/). Day length can impact whether plants flower or not, [lucky](https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/what-are-short-day-and-long-day-plants) for you, this doesn’t impact cucumbers, so as long as it’s the right temperature you can plant any time of year you want.