If you only grow one slicing cucumber, this is the safe bet, and it is safe for a reason. Marketmore 76 carries real disease resistance to downy mildew, mosaic virus and leaf spot, the three problems that most often take a cucumber row out in midsummer, so the vines keep going when neighboring plants give up. The fruit is dark green and about eight inches, sweet and tender, on vines that run four to six feet. Direct sow once the soil is warm and give those vines room. Sixty five days, and thirty seeds minimum in the packet.

Open pollinated, untreated and GMO free seed, hand packed by Sow True Seed in Asheville, North Carolina.