Cucumbers

All seeds are sustainably grown & chemical free.

20 seeds per packet.

English Greenhouse

English Telegragh  –  60 days.

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This is the original ‘EnglishCucumber’ around since at least 1884 or 1885. It was a favourite in Victorian England & was often grown in greenhouses to ensure a steady supply of cucumbers year-round. It is a long, thin-skinned cucumber with a mild flavour & crisp flesh. Can be harvested at various stages of growth, plus regular harvesting improves yields.

Shintokiwa  –  62 days.  Japanese long, slender, smooth skinned fruits, averaging 9–10″ and growing up to an edible size of 1′ in good fertility. Sweet, crisp and juicy without bitterness. Trellis plants for really straight fruit & harvest when slender for best flavour & texture. Good for pickles too.

Pickling

Vorgebirgstrauben – 55-60 days. Old Rhinish German favourite! Great pickler with a dimpled bumpy skin at pickling stage. The vines are heavy producers, the cucumbers are snappy-crisp, & flavour fresh, never bitter. Best pickler in trials! 30 seeds per packet.

Dual Purpose Cucumbers – Pickling and Slicing

A&C Pickler (Ace) – 50-55 days.

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Introduced in 1928 by Abbott & Cobb of Pennsylvania. Uniformly straight 8-10 inch fruits hold dark green colour for a long time. Pick when small for pickler or larger for slicing. Best picked when 4-6” long. Good for market gardens as productive & reliable. 30 seeds per packet.

Earliest Mincu – 50 days. Perfect for pickling or slicing, these dual-purpose cukes are 4-5” long. Early   & quick to harvest. Compact vines produce heavy yields of short light green fruit with white spines.

Early Russian – 50-55 days. Introduced in 1854. Pick early for gherkins or matures as 6” sweet cukes. Never bitter. Produces over a long season.

Marketmore 76 – 60 days. A reliable good flavoured variety that produces abundant yields of 8-9” slicers on disease resistant plants.

Spacemaster – 62 days. Very compact bushy variety is ideal for small growing areas. Excellent pickler when small, use for slicer when larger. 

Slicing Cucumbers

Silver Slicer – 54 days. Superior slicer may be the best eating cucumber of them all. Long 7-8”, slim thin skin, buttery, crunchy, great flavour & crisp. Heavy set of buttery crunchy crisp fruits, neither watery nor ever bitter. Resists PM and keeps going till September. 30 seeds per packet.

Ukrainian Slicing Cucumber – 60 days. Straight, green slicing cucumber with ribbing & pale green streaking. Zero bitterness, even after a heat wave. Good yields of 8” fruit.