Shintokiwa Cucumber

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75 days to harvest Cucumis sativus

Friends! What an extraordinary cucumber!

Shintokiwa Cucumber’s smooth-skinned fruit, long & slender, has an impressively small seed cavity & a sweet flavor we’ve never tasted in another cucumber. She’s outrageously crunchy with plenty of juice, resisting becoming bitter even as she lengthens past 12 inches. Wow! We’ve found between 6 and 8 inches long to be the magic length of optimum sweetness. If you’d love Shintokiwa straight, train her up a trellis; if you love to let cucumbers spiral as we do, along the ground you’ll be delighted.

It’s true, we loved ‘Suyo Long’ for many years and now love to sow Shintokiwa Cucumber for her incredible flavor and productivity as well as resistance to Bacterial Wilt.

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Planting Method: Direct Seed Recommended

To Direct Seed: Sow after last frost, 2 seeds every 3 feet (thinning to 1).

For Transplanting: Sow indoors 2-3 weeks before last frost in peat pots (plant entire pot) or soil blocks to minimally disturb roots when transplanted

Seed Depth: 1/2 inch Days to Germination: 10 at 70°F (21°C); 3 at 80°F (26°C)

Sun Needs: Full

Spacing (after thinning/transplanting): 3 feet; 30-36 inches between rows

Trellis for easier harvest, straighter fruits & less disease pressure.

Days to Harvest: 75 Height: 5-foot+ vines

Harvest: We’ve found between 6 and 8 inches long to be the magic length of optimum sweetness.