CUCUMBER, Green Finger (65 days) Cucumis sativus This is a fine OP Persian cucumber that is ideal for market growers or home gardeners. It has very thin, dark green skin, and the crisp flesh is sweet, juicy, burpless, and never bitter. It's a truly gourmet variety that is highly prolific, producing up to 15 fruits per plant. Average size is 6-8", although the fruit holds its quality and can be picked anywhere from 4 to 10" long. (of course, if you pick baby cukes, you can expect to harvest even more. A beit-alpha type, open pollinated cucumber recently developed by Cornell University. It is one of the only OP cucumbers available that is resistant to a host of significant foliar diseases including powdery mildew, papaya ringspot virus, watermelon mosaic virus, and zucchini yellow mosaic virus. Thanks to Steve Peters from Seed Revolution now for introducing us to this variety. Packet (1 g ≈ 25 seeds)...

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Gerkin, Mexican Sour (75 days) Melothria scabra AKA Cucamelon or Mouse melon. A unique relative of cucumbers that produces a plethora of small (1-1 ½ “) fruits that resemble tiny watermelons and have a unique mildly sour cucumber flavor that are delicious to pop in your mouth and eat raw, serve on salads or pickled. Vines grow vigorously up to 10’ and benefit from a trellis. HEIRLOOM. SSF PACKET – 1/2 g. (~150 seeds)...

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Jelly Melon, Kiwano, aka African Horned Melon  Cucumis metuliferus (120 days) The Jelly Melon originated in semi-arid Africa near the Kalahari Desert and is botanically speaking not a melon.  This bizarre fruit with its  prominent spines is also known as “blowfish fruit” and unbelievably it was actually featured in an old episode of Star Trek (alien food?). Grown for it’s lime green colored pulp which is reminiscent of cucumber, citrus and kiwi. Delightful in creative cocktails! Oblong fruits grow to about 6-7” and are ripe to pick when the striped green skin turns yellow orange. Fairly easy to grow - similar to cucumbers.  SSF. Packet: (0.5g)...

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