Saturday, May 24, 2014 Cucumbers are a tropical plant and love heat. They should be started indoors 4 weeks prior to the last frost (mid March in our Zone 6) and transplanted outside after all danger of frost has passed. Cucumbers have been around for thousands of years and originally were cultivated in India. The cucumber arrived in Europe at least 2000 years ago. The Romans loved them. They were so well thought of that Christopher Columbus brought the cucumber with him to Haiti in the…