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Cucumbers
| Variety | Description |
|---|---|
| Armenian | Harvest at 8"-18" long • 65-70 days • Dark and light green • Vining Valued for its flavor and attractive fruits, this cucumber is also known as snake melon. It is a heavy producer of light and dark green striped fruit that have a curved shape. An excellent slicer, the flesh is mild, sweet and crunchy. This variety requires a long and warm growing season. |
| Boston | 3-7" • 55 days • Green • Heirloom • Vining An old heirloom dating back to 1880. Vigorous vines give large yields, excellent for pickles, very crisp and good quality. A very popular variety at the turn of the 20th century. |
| Bush | 6-8" • 55 days • Green • Hybrid • Bush Juicy slicing cucumbers in record time on dwarf bushes, perfect for small space or container gardens. These sturdy indeterminate hybrid vines yield strong crops in both cool conditions and real summer heat. Resistant to powdery mildew, cucumber mosaic virus and scab. |
| Diva | Harvest at 5-7" long • 58 days • Green • 5-6' • Vining Distinctly tender, crisp, sweet and bitter free seedless cukes. Adapted for growing in fields, so no need for support. Especially flavorful when harvested small. Disease and mildew resistant. |
| Endeavor | Harvest at 3-4" • 53 days • Green • Hybrid • Vining This early-bearing pickling or “Kirby” cucumber is a kitchen garden dynamo that produces an extended harvest of crispy, curved fruits. |
| Garden Sweet Burpless | 10-12" • 55 days • Green • Vining Unbelievable yields of fruits with faint striping and a smooth, thin skin. Completely burpless and bitter-free. |
| Green Fingers | Harvest at 3-5" • 60 days • Green • Vining Cute mini cucumbers that are smooth, thin-skinned and crispy. The vigorous, powdery mildew tolerant vines are self-pollinating. |
| Lemon | Harvest at 1.5-2.5" • 65 days • Yellow • Vining Small, rounded, pale yellow cucumbers. This versatile cucumber is sweet and flavorful, and doesn't have much of the chemical that makes other cucumbers bitter. |
| Pepinex | 12-14" • 65-70 days • Green • Vining Flawless and refined, Pepinex produces premium English-type cucumbers on productive plants. |
| Straight Eight | 8" • 58 days • Green • Heirloom • Vining Classic variety whose vigorous leafy vines bear good crops of juicy slicing cucumbers with a crunchy texture and mild, sweet flavor. |
Squash
| Variety | Description |
|---|---|
| Igor Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin | 8-20 lbs. • 100 days • Orange • Vining The traditional pumpkin of Halloween. Excellent for carving and cooking. |
Catalog photo credits: UC Master Gardeners—1P. Dimas, 2P. Joki, 3D. Laner, 4T. Loftus, 5G. Myers, 6S. Wentz, 7S. Wood, 8C. Yip, 9Unknown UC Master Gardener of Alameda County.