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Article: How to grow great greenhouse cucumbers.
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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European cucumbers can be a bumper crop in green houses. They differ from other types of cucumbers in many ways. The fruits are long, between 14-18 inches, and weigh a pound or more each. The forest green skin is very soft, so many producers wrap each cucumber individually to protect them from bruising and to preserve freshness. The fact that they're seedless does make them easier to digest, but in reproduction terms, they are hybrids. Many years of plant breeding have resulted in vigorous, high yielding, good tasting fruits.
Even more important for greenhouse growers, fruit set happens without pollination! Now greenhouse growers incorporate pollinating insects ...