Description
A slicer cucumber, these perfectly straight cucumbers have sweet, mild flesh. Excellent flavor makes this cucumber a superb choice for salads or dipping.
If picked small, the Straight Eight Cucumbers are suitable for pickling, too. Home gardeners keep growing this old favorite for its large, flavorful fruits. Straight Eight Cucumbers are a reliable and versatile choice for gardeners, offering a juicy texture and mild, sweet flavor that makes them perfect for salads, pickling, or snacking.
- Characteristics: Attracts bees
- Color: Green
- Fill Weight (grams): 1.4 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 46 - 56
- Flavor: Sweet and mild taste.
- Preparation Ideas: Use this organic cucumber in salads or for dipping or pickling.
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Type: Vining
- Resistance: Cucumber mosaic
- Tolerance: Heat
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer|Fall
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer|Fall
- Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sowing Info
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
- Planting Depth: 0.5"
- Seed Spacing: Sow Organic Straight Eight Cucumber seeds roughly 6' apart in rows. Best practice is to grow vining cucumber varieties against a fence or trellis.
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Once per week, Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
Description
A slicer cucumber, these perfectly straight cucumbers have sweet, mild flesh. Excellent flavor makes this cucumber a superb choice for salads or dipping.
If picked small, the Straight Eight Cucumbers are suitable for pickling, too. Home gardeners keep growing this old favorite for its large, flavorful fruits. Straight Eight Cucumbers are a reliable and versatile choice for gardeners, offering a juicy texture and mild, sweet flavor that makes them perfect for salads, pickling, or snacking.
- Characteristics: Attracts bees
- Color: Green
- Fill Weight (grams): 1.4 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 46 - 56
- Flavor: Sweet and mild taste.
- Preparation Ideas: Use this organic cucumber in salads or for dipping or pickling.
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Type: Vining
- Resistance: Cucumber mosaic
- Tolerance: Heat
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer|Fall
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer|Fall
- Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sowing Info
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
- Planting Depth: 0.5"
- Seed Spacing: Sow Organic Straight Eight Cucumber seeds roughly 6' apart in rows. Best practice is to grow vining cucumber varieties against a fence or trellis.
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Once per week, Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.