True Lemon Cucumber
Historic Variety
- Staff Favorite
- Organic
- Fruits resemble a lemon
- Faint lemon flavor
- Extremely productive
- Rust and drought resistant
- 58-70 days
- ±700 seeds/oz
Item Details
This rust- and drought-resistant, highly productive variety is a popular market cucumber in Australia, where it is also known as Lemon or Garden Lemon cucumber due to its lemon-like appearance when ripe and its slightly citrusy flavor. Easy to digest and well-suited for pickling and fresh eating, it was listed in the 1894 catalog of Samuel Wilson of Mechanicsville, Pennsylvania. 58-70 days. ±700 seeds/oz.
Learn to Grow True Lemon Cucumber
Direct Seed: 1" Deep
Seeds to Hill: 6-8 Seeds
Thin: To 3-4 Plants
Light: Full Sun
Instructions - When growing plants on a trellis, space seed 6-8" apart and thin plants as necessary; train plants to climb the trellis with an initial guidance. Alternatively, make 12" hills at least 6' apart. Plant 6-8 cucumber seeds per hill 1" deep. After germination, thin to 3-4 plants per hill. Can also be started indoors 2-4 weeks before last frost. Cucumbers benefit from steady moisture.
Ratings & Reviews
2 reviews
Super productive
by LB
Super productive and easy to grow. I can't tell that they taste like lemon at all, but they're really cute.
Novelty Cucumber
by 6B Gardener
5 Stars for productivity, 3 stars for flavor (I don't taste the citrus).
I found them susceptible to fungus. Probably will not grow again in favor of some more resistant varieties.