This cucumber is an early setting, compact bush type spreading only about 24 inches. It has a light, sweet taste with a firm texture, perfect for pickling when harvested early. Fruits left on the vines can get up to 6 inches long and can be enjoyed fresh in salads. It’s an excellent heat tolerant pickling cucumber. Available from Seeds By Design.

Saladmore Bush F1 Cucumber boasts a bush-type growth habit making this AAS Winner perfect for growing in container gardens. Anyone looking for a good slicing type cucumber with dark green skin and long straight fruits will enjoy this beauty, along with its superior taste and texture; a perfect reflection of summer’s bounty. An added bonus is the disease resistance that proved to be especially valuable in warmer climates where comparison varieties easily succumbed to late season diseases. Available from Seeds By Design.

With a high yielding plant and attractive, glossy, dark-green fruit, this open field fresh market American slicer leads the market in fruit quality rate. Available from Harris Moran.

This exclusive new gynoecious variety has a healthy, vigorous plant with very consistent performance. The attractive dark-green fruit is early (55 to 60 days) and uniform with an average fruit length of 8.25 to 8.5 inches. An impressive disease resistance package tops off the benefits of this exciting new variety. Available from Clifton Seed.

GVS 609 is a hybrid cucumber suitable for greenhouses, plastic tunnels, and is adapted to spring, summer, and early fall planting. It produces high yields, and the fruits are dark green, cylindrical, and firm and between 6 to 7 inches. It’s resistant to cucumber mosaic virus, melon mosaic virus, powdery mildew, downy mildew, and zucchini yellow mosaic virus. Available from Golden Valley Seed.

This organic, greenhouse hybrid produces very dark green, uniform, 7-8" slicing cucumbers despite cool weather or heat. Small seed cavity. Skin is thick enough to endure harvesting and handling, but thinner than the average slicing cucumber. Also does well in the field. Gynoecious and parthenocarpic. Intermediate resistance to cucumber mosaic virus, cucumber vein yellowing virus, and powdery mildew. Available from Johnny's Selected Seeds.

A mini “cocktail” cuke for the field or hoophouse, Iznik produces good yields of 3.5 to 4-inch spineless, seedless, dark-green snack cucumbers. It features multiple fruits per node and excellent flavor. Pick daily for best quality. Iznik is both parthenocarpic and gynoecious. Available from Johnny's Selected Seeds.

This cucumber boasts tremendous quality plus uniform size and shape. It is dark green and has excellent shipping ability and high yields. Boasting a multi-virus resistant disease package, it also features strong vines, which are healthy and productive when other varieties succumb to virus pressures. Mongoose equals snake killer. Available from Siegers Seed Co.

Vigorous plant habit for Xtreme produces uniform, firm, dark-green fruit, with a small seed cavity. This cucumber holds its length in cooler weather. Available from Siegers Seed Co.

Hybrid Cucumber Summer Dance is a high yielding, very vigorous, glossy deep green, Japanese burpless type cucumber, suitable for open field. Fruit is about 8 in. long, and approximately 1 in, crispy and juicy. in diameter. Suitable for sowing April through July. Monoecious flowering habit (medium number of female), highly resistant to Powdery mildew and Downy mildew, intermediate resistance to Corynespora blight and target spot. Available from American Takii.

Hybrid Cucumber Summer Top is easy to grow, high yielding, producing very uniform fruit. Deep green, Japanese burpless type, suitable for open field, 8 in. long, and approximately 1 in. in diameter, crispy and juicy. Suitable for sowing April through July. Monoecious flowering habit (medium number of female), high resistance to Powdery mildew and Downy mildew. Available from American Takii.

Hybrid Cucumber Fountain Top is best suited for greenhouse production. Japanese burpless type cucumber, glossy deep green, about 8 in. long, and approximately 1 in. in diameter, crispy and juicy. High yielding, best sown July through August. Predominantly gynoecious flowering habit. Available from American Takii.