Cucumber
Cucumis sativus
Cucumbers don't have to be green and oblong as the ones we find in the supermarket – they can also be white, yellow, round and oval. Why not try a new kind this year?
Northern Pickling, ekofrö
Is a very early pickling gherkin of medium green fruits, which, like all pickling...
More info →Muncher, ekofrö
Delicate, perfectly smooth, dark green, sweet tasting salad-cucumber ready to be enjoyed...
More info →Gergana, ekofrö
A cucumber for the greenhouse and for warm locations outdoors. Long, of uniform thickness...
More info →H-19 Little Leaf, ekofrö
Is a smaragd green pickle ghurkin, that also is enjoyable fresh for salads. The plant...
More info →Miniature White
Is cream coloured, small and plump like an egg, our early favourite cucumber. The plant...
More info →Boothby's Blonde, ekofrö
Chubby, cream-white cucumber with small, black spines. The spines can easily be removed,...
More info →Arboga Vit, ekofrö
Appeared in the assortment of several seed companies around the turn of the 20th century....
More info →Tanja, ekofrö
Yields a smooth (with a few thorns) dark green cucumber, about 30 -35 cm long with...
More info →Suyo Long, ekofrö
Is outstanding in flavour, the most delicious cucumber ever, is a very old sort from...
More info →Xin Tai, ekofrö
Is a cucumber from Northern China for growing in green houses and outdoors. It's a very...
More info →Crystal Apple, ekofrö
Also called Lemon. Is for growing outdoors and gives a fruit that is round like a ball...
More info →History
4000 years ago it was grown universally in most of Asia and arrived in Europe via the Middle East and North Africa. With the fall of the Roman Empire it disappeared from Europe and was not grown again until the mid 1500s. The cucumber came to Sweden in the 1600s.
Cucumbers are, together with melons, pumpkins, marrows, squashes and gourds, the most commonly grown crops of the gourd family.
