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Cucumber Project

Page history last edited by Stuart Blood 5 years ago

Upper Valley Seed Savers

Cucumber Project


 

Date/Season:    2014

 

Crop / Species:  Cucumber / Cucumis sativus

 

Variety:                   “Small White”

 

Project Type:      Growing for seed

 

Project Goals:   Maintaining viability of an heirloom variety that is not commercially available

 

 

Project coordinator:       Stuart Blood

 

Email:                                        ssblood@riseup.net 

 

 

Other people working on the project and their contact information:

 

 

Project site(s) description (soil, aspect, amendments…):

Stuart’s garden, Thetford Center, VT.  Garden established 1988.  Reclaimed 2nd growth pine forest on the old Poor Farm.  SW aspect.  Well amended clay-loam.  Morning shade from trees makes site less than optimal.

 

 

Volunteer / resource needs:

 

 

Additional Comments:

 

Project Report (cont'd on second page):

 Saved from 15 vines in a total population about 20.  Good germination in 2015. This is an heirloom grown from seed I got from Phil Rice, in Hartland, several years ago.  Phil has carried them on from his neighbor, Doris Propst starting in ~ 1979.  The name "small white" comes from Phil.  We don't know the actual name.  I have days to maturity at 52 days, based on my experience.  It's a tasty, burpless, prolific variety.  Great for pickling.  Reliable.

 

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