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Poona Kheera
- Bored with American cucumbers and
ready for something different? This
emigré from India undergoes quite a
metamorphosis, 4–5" fruits turning
from cream color to golden yellow to
russet brown, shaped almost like a
potato as they mature. At each stage
they remain extremely crisp, sweet,
juicy, refreshing and bitter-free.
In Asia they are used in stir-fries,
long-marinating dishes, pickles and
chutneys. They keep their crisp
texture and absorb sauce flavors in
Thai and Indian food. Vines
vigorous, disease resistant and
heavy yielding.
Boothby’s Blonde
- Maine, famous for Moody’s Diner
and Moxie, also boasts a less
well-known heirloom cucumber,
maintained for five generations by
the Boothby family of Livermore.
Boothby’s short plump oval fruits
average 3–4" and become yellower as
they mature. They feature a creamy
exterior with contrasting black
spines and a juicy refreshing
interior. Larger seed cavities than
most cukes, but the seeds themselves
actually add to the mild sweet
flavor that makes the fruits so good
for eating out of hand. Boothby’s
usually lacks the bitter aftertaste
so common in many of the other white
cukes we’ve trialed. Has the “cool”
texture uncommon in American cukes.
Marketmore
- Dr. Henry Munger’s classic
open-pollinated cucumber for the
ages, long the leading slicing
variety in the Northeast. We sold
nearly 5,000 packets in 2009. Dark
green 8–81/2" fruits show good
uniformity. Vines vigorous
throughout season.
Lemon
- Would you buy a lemon from Fedco?
A lot of people will buy this lemon
beloved by salad chefs and backyard
gardeners alike for its heavy yields
of rounded 3" fruits shaped somewhat
like lemons. Color evolves from pale
greenish yellow (immature though
preferred by some customers as most
tender and least seedy) to lemon
yellow (best eating stage for most)
to golden yellow (full maturity and
seed production).Very crisp and
sweet; never gets bitter and one of
the best for eating right out of the
garden. Samuel Wilson of
Mechanicsville, PA, introduced this
lemon in his 1894 catalog, some
years before Detroit started turning
out some lemons you wouldn’t buy.
Richmond Green Apple
- What’s refreshing and juicy,
lemon-shaped and comes from
Australia? These hard-to-find
heirloom cucumbers. I feasted on
them in my 2004 trials and have been
wanting to offer them ever since.
Beautiful lime-green, they grow
slightly larger than lemons with
sweet mild flavor that really
satisfies
Straight Eight
- This "All American Selection" in
1935 has smooth, straight, dark
green, 8 inch fruits. A very
prolific home garden variety!
Tendergreen Burpless
– The long, 8 -10 inch, thin, dark
green fruits are non-bitter, acid
free and burpless! Resistant to
downy mildew and powdery mildew.
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