Vegetable Seeds

Trimax is a disease resistant variety making it ideal for organic gardeners. The fruits are produced in abundance, from 50 to 100 per plant, and have a mild flavour with no bitter after taste. Fruits grow from 32cm to 38cm. This climbing English Cucumber is easy to train up a trellis. The plant can reach heights of 2.5 metres and has a spread of up to 45cm.

Seed is of commercial quality and has been pretreated with a fungicide coating.

Melothria scabra is a vine grown for its edible fruit. Fruit are about the size of grapes and taste like cucumbers with a tinge of sourness. They are also known as mouse melon, Mexican sour gherkin, cucamelon, Mexican miniature watermelon and Mexican sour cucumber. This plant is native to Mexico and Central America, where it is called sandiita (little watermelon). It is believed to have been a domesticated crop before western contact began. These plants are relatively slow-growing when they are establishing themselves, but can eventually grow up to ten feet under proper conditions. They are drought resistant and pest-resistant relative to other cucumbers. Similar to the cucumber, these plants are monoecious, producing both male and female flowers on the same plant. These plants can pollinate themselves, but the individual flowers are not self-fertile. Flowers are small and yellow, about four millimeters in diameter. Fruits develop at the base of the female flower.

Patio Snacker is a well branched, short, vining variety perfect for large containers with small trellises. This fast-growing plant produces early, continuous high yields of 8-in. (20-cm) dark green fruit with great flavour and a nice crunch. Easy to grow.

The horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), also called African horned cucumber or melon, jelly melon, hedged gourd, English tomato, melano, or kiwano and also known as "cherie", is an annual vine in the cucumber and melon family. The fruit of this plant is edible. When ripe, it has a yellow-orange skin and a lime green jelly-like flesh with the taste similar to a banana and texture similar to a cucumber. The horned melon is native to Africa. Hairy climber, yellow funnel-shaped flowers in Summer-Autumn, fruits marbled green ripening to bright orange with hard sharp spines. Sow Spring.

Short, thick cucumbers with blunt ends are perfect for pickles and delicious in salads. Fruits have striped, medium green skin and a slightly tapered shape to fit in a pickle jar. A heavy producer with black spines. Developed by the National Pickle Packers Association in the USA. 

Plant produces excellent yields of 8" long pale green cucumbers. Excellent slicing cucumber for salads. Easy to grow.

Very uniform and unique variety is a prolific yielder that keeps producing late in the season when others have stopped. 3" diameter, round, yellow cucumbers are juicy, crisp and refreshing. Great for fresh slicing and pickling. Have the patience to wait for this one, they are as wonderfully tasting as they are attractive.

Long, slender, dark green cucumbers. The slender, refined "Marketmore " has 8-9" fruits staying uniformly dark green even under weather stress. Begins bearing late, but picks for a relatively long time. Intermediate resistance to cucumber mosaic virus, downy mildew, and powdery mildew. 

Cucumis anguria, commonly known as bur cucumber, bur gherkin, cackrey, gooseberry gourd, maroon cucumber, West Indian gherkin, and West Indian gourd, is a vine that is indigenous to Africa. It is similar and related to the common cucumber and its cultivars are known as gherkins. Cucumis anguria is a thinly stemmed, herbaceous vine scrambling up to 3 meters long. Fruits (45cm 34cm) are longly stalked, and ovoid to oblong. The surface of the fruits have long hairs covering a surface having warts and/or spines; the inner flesh is palid to green.

USDA Zone - 9

Season to Sow - Spring

Heavily ribbed, light green cucumbers with mild, sweet taste. Very long fruit, best eaten when 60cm long and less than 6cm across. Oriental. 70 days.

Plant produces good yields of 8" long white cucumbers. Excellent for salads, pickles, or gourmet dishes. Impress your neighbour's by growing these unusual and peculiar white cucumbers!

Especially bred for home pickling, these attractive, extra-tasty cucumbers will make perfect pickles every time! Boasting solid, crisp flesh and excellent bite, they should be harvested at about 3-4cm for tiny sweet pickles, or left to mature to 12-15cm for hefty, robust dill pickles. At whatever size, they are firm and tender-sweet! Plants grow very vigorously over a long season, with great disease resistance for even bigger yields. Support the vines with a trellis or staking.

An heirloom introduced from Armenia into Italy as far back as the 1400's. It is a melon but is used like a cucumber. Picked small (40cm or less), it is very mild and tasty, but the fruits can grow to over 1 m! Prolific yields.