Cucumber seed Cucumis sativus
LATIN NAME: Cucumis sativus
COMMON NAME: Cucumber
The cucumber is the cool green of the summer garden, and the crisp, dark-green fruits come through the warm season. The vigorous, trailing or climbing, annual plant carries the large, bristly leaves and the yellow, bell-shaped flowers through the warm season, to be followed by the long, cylindrical, dark-green fruits with the fine, crisp, cool flesh. The fruits have a very long record as the fresh, cool green of the warm kitchens, and the plant is a fine, generous presence of the vegetable garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, rich, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The cucumber is a steady, fruitful subject of the plant science, and the crisp fruits keep showing up in the work on the cucurbit group. The breeding of the cucumbers for the crispness and the disease resistance has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the cucurbit genetics, the fresh-market vegetables and the members of the gourd family. The large, bristly leaves and the vigorous, trailing habit have also made it a fine field plant, and the cucumber is a regular subject of the work on the cool greens of the warm world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The cucumber is a fine, generous plant of the warm vegetable garden. The long, cylindrical, dark-green fruits come through the warm season with the fine, crisp, cool flesh, eaten fresh in the salads, sliced into the cool drinks and pickled into the jars of the warm kitchens. The vigorous vine covers the trellis and the ground with the large, bristly leaves, and it is one of the fine choices for the warm vegetable garden, the trellis bed and the fresh salad bed of the summer. It has been written up in the culinary and the agricultural papers for the crisp fruits and the cool ways, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, rich, well-drained garden.
The cucumber is one of the cool greens of the warm kitchen, and the crisp fruits are eaten fresh through the warm season. The vigorous vine covers the trellis and the ground.
To grow the cucumber from seed, sow the small, flat seeds a centimetre down in pots of damp, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the last frosts. The seedlings push through within a week and grow on fast. With the sun, the warmth and the rich, well-drained ground, the crisp fruits will come through the warm season.
Vigorous productive vine produces straight, deep green fruit, 20cm/8cm long, bright white flesh with bitter-free flavour. Excellent for slicing, in salads and also used for pickling when small. 60 days.