Cucurbitacées • Cucumis sativus

Aunt Alice's Organic Cucumber

"A vigorous and flavorful cucumber, a faithful ally of heritage vegetable gardens."

$4.49

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The Aunt Alice cucumber is an old variety that will appeal to gardeners looking for a generous and easy-to-grow plant. Originally from Europe, it has become a staple in vegetable gardens thanks to its abundant yield and relative resistance to common cucumber diseases.

With its vigorous growth habit, this variety produces elongated, deep green fruit, perfect for summer salads or pickles. Aunt Alice proves to be a valuable companion in the garden, bringing a touch of freshness during the warm season. Its vigor makes it an excellent choice for trellis cultivation, where it forms productive green screens.

In the perennial garden, it encourages biodiversity by providing shelter for the soil and contributes to the rotation of vegetables in the vegetable garden, thus participating in a sustainable ecological cycle.

  • Growing climate: Temperate to warm climate
  • Sowing difficulty level: Medium
  • Care required: Regular
    Note: Sensitive to excess moisture, prefer well-drained soil.

In the kitchen, the Aunt Alice cucumber stands out for its sweet and fragrant flavor. Eaten fresh, it adds a touch of crisp freshness to summer salads. It's recommended to peel it if its skin has hardened, or to harvest it young so it can be eaten whole with its thin skin. Sliced ​​into rounds or sticks, it's appreciated for its excellent taste and especially for being very easy to digest, even for those who are usually sensitive to cucumbers.

Smaller fruits can also be preserved (in marinades or pickles) to enjoy their firm texture and delicate aroma year-round. Thanks to its firm, juicy flesh, Aunt Alice is well-suited to lacto-fermentation and other homemade preparations, without becoming excessively soft.

Aunt Alice's Organic Cucumber

Aunt Alice's Organic Cucumber

$4.49

$4.49

écoumene seeding advice

Seeding type

Indoor and outdoor seeding

Germination time

3-5 days

Germination temperature

28° to 34° Celsius

Sowing depth

Sow seeds 1-2 cm deep

Transplantation

Difficult Transplantation

Technical

Seeding in clusters

Growing conditions

Number of days to maturity

Harvest at ± 70 days

Hardiness zone

Zone-3b

Distance between plants

60 cm

Distance between rows

100 cm

Optimal brightness

Sun plant

Soil texture

Loose (silty) soil

Soil moisture

Cool, well-drained soil

Soil fertility

Plant very demanding in bacteria-dominant compost

optimal soil pH

Low acidic pH

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