CUCUMBER Marketmore

Species: CUCUMBER
Latin name: Cucumis sativus L.
Inscription in the European catalog under: Marketmore - Marketmore 70
Other usual name: -
Variety: Marketmore
Family: Cucurbitaceous
Origin: Central and Southern America

Typical salad variety, producing deep green cylindrical fruits, 20-22 cm long with a rounded tip. Firm flesh with few seeds. The plant is an abundant cropper, bearing the first fruits ready for harvesting in 65 days. Heavy cropper right from first fruits.

Seed sowing: March to June
Harvest Cucumber : June to September
Height: -
Exposure: Sunny

Sowing instructions: Seed sowing direcly in fields from Mars to June, put 3 to 4 seeds in a seed hole in a rich soil, depth of sowing 1 to 2 cm, with an interval of 60 to 80cm between the holes. Clear up after germination. Nip out main shoot after first four leaves, later repeating the same operation on side shoots every 4 leaves, it is necessary to hold them in a hot place and a good sunny, put them against a trellis-work or a latticework to support them.

Sowing distance: 60 by 80 cm between lines
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 14 °C to 17°C
Seed germination: 6 to 8 days
Nutritional value: 11 Kcal to 100 gr.

Net weight of seeds: 4 gr = +/- 125 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.