Muncher Cucumber seed Cucumis sativus

LATIN NAME: Cucumis sativus

COMMON NAME: Muncher Cucumber

The cucumber is the crisp, cool answer to the heat of the summer garden. The vigorous, sprawling or climbing annual carries the broad, rough leaves and the small, yellow flowers, to be followed by the long, straight, dark-green, tender-skinned fruits of the muncher type, eaten fresh, sliced into the salads and the sandwiches. The plant is one of the great, generous crops of the summer kitchen garden, giving its cool, crisp fruits through the warm months. It is a plant of the deep, rich, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The cucumber is one of the plain workhorses of the plant science, studied for the long, straight fruits and the tender skins. The breeding of the cucumber for the crispness, the earliness and the disease resistance has been examined closely, and it keeps showing up in the work on the vegetable breeding, the greenhouse crops and the members of the gourd family. The broad, rough leaves and the vigorous, climbing habit have also made it a fine garden plant, and the cucumber is a regular subject of the studies of the salad crops of the warm season.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The cucumber is the cool, crisp workhorse of the summer kitchen garden. The long, straight, tender-skinned fruits are eaten fresh from the vine, sliced into the salads, the sandwiches and the relishes, and the plant gives its cool, generous harvest through the warm months. The vines also climb the netting and the frames with the ease, and the fruits are a fine, refreshing presence of the summer table. It has been written up in the horticultural and the culinary papers for the crisp fruits and the easy summer ways, and it is a fine, generous crop of the deep, rich, well-drained garden.

The cucumber is one of the great, generous crops of the summer kitchen garden, and the long, straight, tender-skinned fruits are eaten fresh from the vine or sliced into the salads and the relishes. The vines climb the netting with the ease.

To grow the cucumber from seed, sow the seeds a little over a centimetre deep in pots of moist, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a warm, bright spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the frosts. The seedlings are up within a week and climb fast. With the sun, the warmth and the deep, rich, well-drained ground, the cool, crisp fruits will come through the warm season.

smooth skinned. medium green, grow to 9cm long .used salads making pickles.