About
Cucumber is a vegetable in the squash family. They are popular both as a fresh vegetable as well as pickled.
Growing Advice
Companion Planting
Pests & Diseases
Seed Saving
Cucumber seeds have a dormacy of 84+ days before they are viable for planting. Cucumbers must reach the overripe stage, and keep them in a cool, dark place for 5 or more weeks, until the cucumbers have changed color to brown, yellow or white. Scoop out seeds, rinse, then allow to dry. For best viability, collect cucumbers from multiple plants. Cucumbers will cross-pollinate with other variety of cucumbers, but not with other types of squash.
Heirloom Varieties
- A & C Pickling
- Armenian Yard Long (Serpent Cucumber; Snake Melon)
- Ashley
- Beit Alpha
- Bothby’s Blonde
- Boston Pickling
- Burpless Wonder
- Bushy
- Chinese Yellow
- Cornichon de Bourbonne
- Crystal Apple Cucumber
- De Bourbonne
- Delikatesse
- Double Yield
- Early Fortune
- Early Russian
- Edmonson
- Ellen’s Family White
- Empereur Alexandre
- Everbearing SMR58
- Fin de Meaux
- Fuzzy White Italian
- Himangi
- Hmong Red
- Homemade Pickles
- Japanese Climbing
- Japanese Long
- Jaune Dickfleischige
- Jelly Melon
- Lemon Apple Cucumber
- Little Leaf H-19
- Long Anglais
- Long de Chine
- Long Green
- Longfellow
- Marketmore 76
- Marketmore 80
- Massy’s Green (Vert de Massy)
- Mexican Sour Gherkin
- Minature White
- Parade
- Parisian Pickling
- Poinsett 76
- Poona Kherra
- Richmond Green Apple
- Ruby Wallace’s Old Time White
- Snow’s Fancy Pickling
- Spacemaster
- Straight Eight
- Suyo Long
- Telegraph Improved
- Thai Green
- West India Gherkin
- White Wonder
- Yamato
- Yok Kao
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