Varieties
Varieties of Cucumber
Which variety suits you depends on site, space and taste. Here are the Cucumber varieties with their particulars.
- ‚Bidan F1‘The *‚Bidan F1’* is a compact mini snake cucumber for greenhouse and warm raised beds, producing slender fruits about 20 cm long in dense succession.
- ‚Chinesische Schlangen‘The *‚Chinesische Schlangen’* is a seed‑stable Asian snake cucumber whose extremely long, slender and often slightly…
- ‚La Diva F1‘An early mini snacking cucumber that sets handy fruit of 10 to 15 cm in large numbers, perfect for the balcony, the pot and the nibbling garden.
- ‚Marketmore‘A proven classic for the outdoor slicing cucumber, giving you straight, dark green fruit 18 to 20 cm long even without a greenhouse.
- ‚Restina F1‘A modern, highly resistant pickling cucumber for outdoors, exactly the right choice if mildew has spoiled your harvest in damp summers so far.
- ‚Tanja‘An open pollinated slicing cucumber that produces long, slender and glossy dark green fruits, as much at home in the greenhouse as on a warm trellis outdoors.
- ‚Vorgebirgstrauben‘An old pickling cucumber from the Rhineland that sets its small fruits in grape like clusters, which is where the name comes from.