Showing posts with label cucumber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cucumber. Show all posts

Friday, February 19, 2010

Boothby Blonde Cucumber

63 days. "HEIRLOOM from the Boothby family of Livermore, Maine. 6 inch fruits with yellow-white tender skin and black spines. Rich sweet flavor."
Turtle Tree Biodynamic Seeds

Marketmore Cucumber

55-58 days. "Multiple disease tolerant variety developed by Dr. Henry Munger from Cornell Univ. Dependable set of even 8-9 in. dark green fruits throughout the season. Resistant to Scab, tolerant to Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV), Downy Mildew (DM), and Powdery Mildew (PM)."
Turtle Tree Biodynamic Seeds

Mekti Painted Serpent Melon or Armenian Cucumber

Very long fruit with dark green and pale green stripes, excellent flavor, a rare Armenian-type cucumber that is actually a melon, very unique and is a great selling item at farmers’ markets everywhere.

Suyo Long Cucumber

65 days. "Long, ribbed, dark green fruit can grow to 18". They are very mild, sweet and burpless. One of my personal favorites for fresh eating. This productive heirloom comes from northern China and is very attractive."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

White Wonder Cucumber

60 days. "A great yielder. Creamy-ivory, 7"-long fruits, delicious and great for pickles or slicing. W. Atlee Burpee introduced this heirloom in 1893 after they received it from a customer in New York."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Telegraph Improved Cucumber

"60 days. Smooth, straight, dark-green fruit, to 18" long. Flesh is very crisp, tender and mild, superb flavor. Very few seeds, vigorous high yielding vines, great for greenhouse production; also good cultured outdoors. This is an excellent English heirloom variety, intro. around 1897."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Richmond Green Apple Cucumber

70 days. A unique heirloom from Australia and is still popular there. The fruit are the size of a lemon but are of a beautiful light green color. For eating these are excellent, very mild, sweet and juicy. Hard to find and really fun to grow."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Poona Kheera Cucumber

60 days. "Cream/light green fruits, very delicious flesh, crisp, juicy, sweet and mild, one of my favorite varieties. Fruit shaped like a potato, with skin turning brown as they ripen. One of our best varieties for disease resistance and very hardy. Vines produce early and with very heavy yields. A wonderful heirloom from India that has become our most "asked for" cucumber."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Long de Chine Cucumber

"Types of Long China cucumbers have been mentioned in France since the 1860’s. Long, bright green-colored fruit are mild and tasty. They are the sweet oriental type that so many people enjoy. Vines produce well, and this variety is still commercially grown in Europe."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Delikatesse Cucumber

"60 days. 10"-long, unique fruits are pale green with small warts. Superb taste, excellent for slicing or pickling; bears abundantly. A rare variety from Germany."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Crystal Apple Cucumber

"Small 3" oval fruit are a bright, creamy white, about the size of a small apple, and sweet, mild and very tender. This variety has become almost extinct in America after being introduced here from Australia around the year 1930 from Arthur Yates and Co. But this type of cucumber is likely to have originated in China. The small fruit are so tender you can eat them skin and all."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Chinese Yellow Cucumber

"Beautiful, yellow-orange cucumber from mainland China, the young fruit is green. 10" fruit are as crisp as an apple. Very mild and delicious, great for slicing or for pickles. This was our largest yielding variety ever - just a few plants produced hundreds of cucumbers! Our favorite cucumber for 2003. A very rare Chinese heirloom."
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Suyo Long Cucumber

Seeds of Change
Remarkable Chinese variety produces quantities of long, curvaceous fruits. Spiny skin protects the delicious, non-bitter flesh. Always one of the favorites in taste tests. Almost seedless, the fruits are burpless, crisp, and tender. (60-65 days to harvest)

White Serpent Melon- Armenian Cucumber

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds (heirloom)
Very long fruit with dark green and pale green stripes, excellent flavor, a rare Armenian-type cucumber that is actually a melon, very unique and is a great selling item at farmers’ markets everywhere. This is hard to find, but one of the best-regarded slicing cucumbers. It's crisp, thin-skinned, and mild-flavored, and it has soft seeds. Like the English cucumber, it doesn't need to be peeled or seeded.