Greenhouse Mini Cucumbers

[shirlthegirl43]

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[johnygreenfeet]

Help please. Last year I grew some mini cucumbers very successfully in the greenhouse, I think they were Cucino but I can only remember that they might have been freebies from a promotion and were advertised as 'Lunchbox' cucs. I've tracked down the seed but it's £3.00 for 4 seeds + pp, out of reach for me as I need to grow about 12 plants (helping out elderly parents and neighbours). Anyone any idea of a good alternative. We liked these because they were quite thin skinned and mum didn't suffer from indigestion after eating them.

try gherkins u will get plenty from a few plants thought i had plenty of seed to give away but when i looked the packet was empty

[johnygreenfeet]

have just found another packet if u would like some they have been sent from france carnt read french dont know type

[Alice]

Hello Ger - Annie - Um, Cucumber Lemon did well outdoors for me last summer in a really miserable summer. They make small, round cucumbers about the size of tennis balls. Seeds were 50p a packet from Alan Roman. I'm giving them another go.

[Woofster]

Last summer I grew cucumber Passandra which is described as a small cucumber (6-7") from Simpsons Seeds (£ 2.70for 5 seeds). It grew very well and produced lots of cucmbers (didn't keep track of how many). I notice in Simpsons catalogue that they also do Cucino (2.60 for 5 seeds).

[veg4681]

Sorry for hijacking this thread, just a quick question. Can a gherkin be grown to be like normal cucumber? However I'm only interested if it still taste like cucumber without the average cucumber size, more like upto 5" long only if that's possible. Thanks.

[johnygreenfeet]

i grow gherkins to pickle but they are just as nice eaten like a cucumber they have small prickles on them i think this puts people off but u just rub them off they will grow to the size of half a used loo roll if u let them for pickling i pick them small
on very hot days they can grow suddenly from the size of your small finger to half a loo roll in one day they grow well outside down here i would say better than in a greenhouse (maybe the root gets more water out side )but they realy grow when its hot they do say though that u should let them grow quite big other wise they can be bitter

[Alison]

Last summer I grew cucumber Passandra which is described as a small cucumber (6-7") from Simpsons Seeds (£ 2.70for 5 seeds). It grew very well and produced lots of cucmbers (didn't keep track of how many). I notice in Simpsons catalogue that they also do Cucino (2.60 for 5 seeds).

I grew passandra and some of them were huge, average in length but collosal in girth!

[crichmond]

I grew passandra as well I had a great crop off 4 plants, luckily I dint plant them in the polytunnel until after the flooding last summer.