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Zarnitsa Cucumber

Zarnitsa Cucumber

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Zarnitsa 

70 to 75 days — 'Zarnitsa' is a good, early, reliable pickling cucumber variety. Its fruit are four to five inches long, and dark green in color with black spikes.

It is an old, Belarusian commercial open-pollinated variety originally sent to us by seed saver, Andrey Baranovski of Minsk (BELR BA A). Each packet contains one gram, which is approximately 20 to 24 seeds.
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Planting Instructions: Cucumbers grow best with long, hot, humid days with maximum sunshine and warm nights. Plants are extremely susceptible to frost. Sow seeds outside only after danger of frost when soil has warmed. Make a second sowing 4 to 5 weeks later for a late summer or early fall harvest. For an earlier harvest and to reduce the threat of insect damage to seedlings, start a few plants indoors in individual pots (or trays with separate compartments) about a month before your last spring frost date.

Sowing: To seed in rows, plant seeds 1 inch deep and about 6 inches apart. To plant in hills, plant four or five seeds in 1-foot-diameter circles set 5 to 6 feet apart.