Cucumbers

(Cucumis sativus) Our favorite tasting long cucumber to date! Smooth skinned, long and slender (like an English cuke), sweet, crisp, and juicy with no bitterness. To top it all, wonderfully productive. Trellis for straight 9-12” cukes or let sprawl for mostly straight and some with personality. Harvest on the thinner...

(Cucumis sativus) There are certain vegetables we waited quite a while before adding to our catalog. We love pickles, and for years we searched through catalogs and trialed pickling cuke varieties only to never quite be satisfied with what we found. The wrong texture, too shy or too spread out...

(Cucumis sativus) Çengelköy is a neighborhood on the Asian shore of the Bosphorous Strait, a bustling waterway plied by passenger ferries and fishing boats, which cleaves the city of Istanbul in two. Now known for historic wooden seaside mansions, cozy tea gardens, friendly stray cats and a relaxed atmosphere, this...

(Cucumis sativus) Another selection out of the venerable Marketmore lineage, “Sweet” was recommended to us by commercial grower and seedsman Bill Reynolds of Eel River Produce in northern California. Likely just a refined strain of the classic “76”, Bill found these to be more vigorous, tolerant to adverse conditions, and...

(Melothria scabra) Most commonly known as Sandita or Sandia de Raton (little watermelon or little mouse melon), this unusual little fruit is native to Mexico and Central America and has been a dietary staple since pre-Columbian times. Crunchy with a bright, lemony, almost pickled cucumber taste, they grow on tall,...

(Cucumis sativus) People go crazy for these fun little cukes at market, and for good reason. They have an irresistible crunch and great cucumber flavor. Nothing “lemony” about them other than their yellow color. Actually the small round fruits are at their best eating quality before they begin to turn...

(Cucumis sativus) Our dear friend and coworker, Rio takes issue with white vegetables deeming them suspicious in nature and therefore probably barely palatable at best. Well, we changed her mind with Snow White tomatoes (magnificent!) and are keen to change it again with this creamy white cucumber. Firstly it should...

(C. melo) Carosello is a specialty of Puglia in the sun-baked southeast corner of Italy. They belong to a class of cucurbits, including the perhaps better known "Armenian cucumber," which are botanically melons but are eaten immature, at which point they taste (and are used) very similar to cucumbers. The...