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Cucumbers! A panoply of cucumber plants await you seasonally at Swansons! Salad Bush crop Cukes for smaller spaces; Bush Cukes for pickling; sweet and mild-flavored lemon cukes; disease resistant market mores; crunchy burpless Orient Express; American selections award winners Sweet Success. Cucumbers for containers, garden plots, rambling or trellised and each with it's own personality. Try some varieties that deserve garden space, but are less well known: • Satsuki
Madori Thin skins, crisp, sweet tasting flesh and few seeds make the Armenian a garden treasure. A well-traveled variety from Armenia to Italy over 600 years ago, and then on to our shores. • Suyo
Long • White
Sun • Mid-East
Prolific
For pleasure beyond the anticipation of eating these fruits (botanically related to melons) pause for a moment and imagine the cultures cultivating cucumber crops for over 3000 years. From the East Indies to Egypt, to the Greeks and Romans and later into Asia, these excellent plants have graced civilizations fresh fruit, sauces, soups, pickles, salads, chutneys, liquors and fragrances for soaps and creams. Swansons is pleased to seasonally offer the best selection of cucumbers. |
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The
cucumbers listed above are easy-to-grow and do well in the Pacific
Northwest.