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Cucurbitaceae
Cucurbitaceae, "the Gourd Family", is the family name for cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, melons, kiwano, gourds, and more. In total, this family contains almost 1000 species, grown both for food and for ornamental purposes.
Alberello di Sarzana Zucchini
Alberello di Sarzana Zucchini, "The Little Tree From Sarzana", produces elongated, dark-green fruits, around 15-20cm long. Creme-white, creamy flesh. Bush-variety, around 60cm high and 90cm wide. Cucurbita pepo. 6seeds/pack
€3.00
Armenian Cucumber Bright Skinned
Armenian Cucumber is not really a cucumber, but a melon. Produces cucumber-looking, elongated fruits, between 20-50cm long. The melons are slightly ribbed and pale green. Crispy, sweet flesh with a hint of melon. The more ripe the fruits are the more taste of melon. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Cucumis melo var. flexuosus. 6seeds/pack
€2.50
Armenian Cucumber Dark Skinned
Armenian Cucumber is not really a cucumber, but a melon. Produces cucumber-looking, elongated fruits, between 20-50cm long. The melons are slightly ribbed and dark green, with a very fine, frizzy hair. Crispy, sweet flesh with a hint of melon. The more ripe the fruits are the more taste of melon. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Cucumis melo var. flexuosus. 6seeds/pack
€2.50
Beth Alpha Cucumber
Beth Alpha Cucumber produces short, chubby cucumbers, around 10-15cm long. Medium to dark-green fruits with crisp white flesh. Early variety. Does well also in shorter seasons. Cucumis sativus. 15seeds/pack
€3.00
Bitter Melon
Bitter Melon is a vining species, climbing over 200cm. Produces rubber-like fruits with soft spines. Ripen from green to yellow to orange as fully ripe. When fully ripe the fruits open from the bottom, showing the shiny red seeds. There are different varieties with longer fruits, round fruits, and also different tastes in bitterness. Used for cooking and its medicinal properties in the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia, and China. Weedy, bitter flavor. Harvest as green and unripe. Momordica charantia. 7seeds/pack
€2.00
Black Beauty Zucchini
Black Beauty Zucchini produces large, cylindrical, elongated, dark-skinned fruits, around 15-20cm long. Creme-white, creamy, and tender flesh. Bush-variety around 60cm high and 90cm wide. From 1931. 50D. Cucurbita pepo. 6seeds/pack
€3.00
Blue Ballet
Blue Ballet produces drop-shaped to round-ish, mid-sized pumpkins with a powdery, grey-blue color. Around 1-3kg per fruit. Yellow-ish, flavorful, and stingless flesh. Stores very well after harvest. Cucurbita maxima. 5seeds/pack
€2.50
Bottle Gourd
Bottle Gourd, a traditional bottle-shaped gourd. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Produces bottle-shaped fruits up to 30cm long. Young fruits can be cooked and eaten like squash. Has been grown for a very long time, not primarily for food, but for containers. Fully ripe fruits get hollow and hard as wood. Can be used as bottles for water or containers, musical instruments, lamps, and more. Lagenaria siceraria. 10seeds/pack
€2.00
Butternut
Butternut - ‘Anquito Butternut’ produces elongated, bottle-shaped, orange-brown fruits, around 1,5-2kg each. Creamy, sweet, orange flesh. Early variety. Cucurbita moschata. 10seeds/pack
€3.00
Calabaza del Mellah Gourd
Calabaza del Mellah is a gourd from The Neighborhood of Mellah in Marrakesh, Morocco. It grows with very long, climbing vines, 300cm or more. The leaves are covered with fine hair. Drought hardy and heat tolerant. Produce very large fruits/gourds, around 100cm long and about 15cm wide in diameter. Young, green, immature fruits can be harvested and used as squash. If the fruits are left to grow to the final size, and then dry they become very hard. Can then be used as containers, water bottles, floats, lamps, decoration, etc. 10seeds/pack
€2.00
Carbassa d´Aigua Gourd
Carbassa d´Aigua Gourd is a bottle gourd from the village of Vilanova de Bellpuig in Catalonia, Spain. Produces large bottle-shaped fruits with a long, and sometimes bent neck. Small, immature fruits can be eaten as squash. Fully mature fruits can be dried and then become very hard. When emptied of seeds, it can be used as a container. It was traditionally used to carry water to the plot or to store water at home. Climbing to more than 200-250cm. Lagenaria siceraria. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Cornichon de Paris Gherkin
Cornichon de Paris is a gherkin variety of cucumber. Produces an abundance of short, compact cucumbers, with little “warts” on the skin. Juicy and crispy taste. Should be harvested when the fruits are around 2,50-5cm long, and fits perfectly in jars. An ideal variety for pickles and other preserves. Cucumis sativus. 15seeds/pack
€3.00
Cucamelon
Cucamelon, also called Mexican miniature watermelon, Mexican sour cucumber, Mexican sour gherkin, and Mouse Melon. Climbing or trailing up 200cm. Produces small, oval watermelon-looking fruits, about 3-5cm long. Sweet-tangy flavor, can be eaten fresh in salads, etc. Melothria scabra. 7seeds/pack
€2.50
Figleaf Gourd
Figleaf Gourd, also called Malabar Gourd, Black Seed Squash, and Cidra. Climbing or trailing up to 500cm or more. Produces oval, green-white-striped fruits. Young fruits can be eaten as cucumbers. Fully ripe fruits can be used for marmalade etc. Large black seeds. Likes heat and water. Cucurbita ficifolia. 5seeds/pack
€3.00
Gete Okosomin
Gete Okosomin produces large, elongated fruits, up to 8kg each. Bright orange-red fruits, slightly mottled fruits. Pleasant, sweet pumpkin flavor with a hint of melon. Very old variety that has been grown by native Americans for hundreds of years. Cucurbita maxima. 5seeds/pack
€3.00
Hercules Club Gourd
Hercules Club, also called Long Gourd, Club Gourd, Cucuzzi Squash, Sicilian Snake. Produces very long fruits, up to 50-75cm. Young fruits are cooked and eaten like squash. White, delicate flesh. Fully ripe fruits get hard as wood. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Lagenaria longissima. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Hopi Orange
Hopi Orange is a dark-orange winter squash with excellent keeper characteristics. Mid-sized pumpkins of around 4-6kg each. The flesh is orange-yellow with an excellent flavor. Perfect for soups, baking, pies, roasting, etc. Vining growth. Cucurbita maxima. 6seeds/pack
€3.00
Kiwano
Kiwano, also call African Horned Cucumber, Horned Melon or Yelly Melon, is a vining species, easily climbing over 200cm. Heavy yielder of up to 10cm long fruits. The fruits are covered in spines or thorns. Can be eaten as unripe, in its green stage, or as yellow - fully ripe. As ripe the seeds inside the fruit get harder. Very yelly, with a melon-cucumber kind of flavor, mild and slightly sweet. Wants to grow in a warm place! Cucumis metuliferus. 10seeds/pack
€2.00
Kobra Gourd
Gourd Kobra is a traditionally bottle-shaped gourd with fruits up to 30cm long. The fruits are bright green, mottled with pale spots and streaks. Climbing or trailing up to 250cm or more. Young fruits can be cooked and eaten like squash. Gourds have been grown for a very long time, not primarily for food, but for containers. Fully ripe fruits get hollow and hard as wood. Can be used as bottles for water or containers, musical instruments, lamps, and more. Lagenaria siceraria. 7seeds/pack
€3.00
Korila
Korila is a vining species, climbing over 200cm. Produces pale-green cucumber-looking fruits around 7-12cm long. The seeds are black as fully ripe, should not be eaten since they are quite hard. The fruits are hollow and can be filled and cooked. The leaves are heavily lobed. Cyclanthera pedata. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Llena de Napoles
Llena de Napoles produces large, bottle-shaped, elongated, fruits, up to 50cm long. Green-mottled fruits with orange flesh. Stores well some time. Cucurbita moschata. 10seeds/pack
€3.00
Luffa Gourd
Luffa Gourd, also called Sponge Gourd, is a vining species, climbing up to over 200cm. Produces green fruits, that ripen to dry brown as fully ripe. The fruits grow to between 20-40cm in length. As very unmatured the fruits can be cooked as okra. When the fruits are fully ripe and dry, they can be peeled and the seeds can be emptied. Inside you will find the sponge! The sponge can be used for showering, cleaning plates, housekeeping, etc. Requires a warm place. Luffa cylindrica / Luffa aegyptiaca. 10seeds/pack
€2.00
Lungo Verde Degli Ortolani Cucumber
Lungo Verde Degli Ortolani is a traditional cucumber from Italy. Cylindrical, dark-skinned, and smooth fruits around 20-25cm long. Crispy texture with few seeds. Cucumis sativus. 10seeds/pack
€3.00
Marina di Chioggia
Marina di Chioggia produces large, flattened fruits, up to 4-10kg each. The fruits are greyish in color and heavily mottled and bumpy. Orange flesh, very nice taste, especially after some time of storing. Stores well. Vining variety, up to 3-5m. Cucurbita maxima. 5seeds/pack
€2.50
Marketmore 76 Cucumber
Marketmore 76 Cucumber produces "normal", long salad-cucumbers, around 15-20cm long. Straight, dark-green, lumpy fruits with crisp white flesh. Does well also in a cooler climate. Cucumis sativus. 10seeds/pack
€2.00
Melon Ananas
Ananas produces yellow-orange-brown fruits with creme-yellow flesh. Sweet flavor. The fruits are slightly ragged, with a bark-like pattern. Later variety, grow in a warm place or greenhouse. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Melon Billeberga
Melon Billeberga is a Swedish melon that has been grown in Sweden already in the 1940s. The variety is described in Weibull AB’s catalog from 1944. Billeberga is a local variety of first class. Round to slightly oval fruits around 1-1,5kg each. Yellow, finely ribbed skin. Orange-yellow flesh with excellent flavor. Meaty fruits with a small core with few seeds. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€3.50
Melon Cantaloupe di Charentais
Melon Cantaloupe di Charentais produces round fruits with light, bark-like skin with stripes, around 1kg each. The flesh is light-orange-yellow with a sweet and pleasant melon flavor. Mid-season, around 85 days. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Melon Jaune Canari 3
Jaune Canari 3 produces oval, yellow fruits with creme-colored flesh. Sweet flavor with a nice aroma. Later variety, grow in a warm place or greenhouse. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Melon Kajari
Kajari is a melon from Punjab, India. Beautiful, round to oblate fruits with stripes in orange-green-white up to 1kg each. Green flesh with an excellent sweet honey-melon flavor. When fully ripe the fruits fall from the vine. If grown on a trellis, be sure to bind the fruits so they don’t fall to the ground and crack. 70-75D. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€3.00
Melon Napoletano Giallo 3
Larger melon with golden-yellow skin. White, sweet flesh with an excellent flavour. Can be stored for a long time. While being stored, the flesh matures and gets sweeter. Later variety. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Melon Queen Anne’s Pocket
Queen Anne’s Pocket Melon is a variety with tiny fruits of around 50grams each. Golden orange fruits with golden stripes. Juicy fruits with a mild and sweet melon flavor, can be served with warm honey. Exquisite fragrance. Was used during the Victorian era by ladies who wore fruits as perfume. Cucumis melo. 85D. 10seeds/pack
€3.00
Melon Retato Degli Ortolani
Retato Degli Ortolani produces oval fruits around 2kg with salmon-orange flesh. The skin is chamois coloured. Delicious flavour with a strong aroma. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Melon St. Vasileios
St. Vasileios, ”Agíou Vasileíou” produces elongated, slightly ribbed, yellow to dark-yellow fruits. Crème-white flesh with a sweet flavor and intense aroma. Around 3-4kg. The plants have small lobed, light-green leaves. Late variety. From Greece. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€3.00
Melon Tendral Verde Tardio
Melon Tendral Verde Tardio produces oval-elongated, dark-green, slightly ribbed fruits, around 1-3kg each. The flesh is light-green, with a very sweet and pleasant melon flavor. Can be a bit difficult to see when the fruits are completely ripe. Stores very well after harvest, used as a winter melon. Late variety, around 100 days. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
Melon Thrakiotiko
Melon Thrakiotiko, or Thrace Melon, produces large, globe-shaped melons up to 3kg, with a little “nose”. The skin is yellow with dark spots and speckles. The flesh is crème-white with a hint of pale-yellow-orange. Firm flesh with a delicious, sweet, and juicy flavor. The flesh has a hint of floral honey. Later variety. Old heirloom variety from the region of Thrace, which includes parts of Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€3.00
Melon Zakynthos
Zakynthos produces flattened fruits, slightly ribbed in “slices”. Golden to paler yellow fruits with white-green flesh. Sweet flavor with a pleasant aroma. Earlier variety. From Greece. Cucumis melo. 10seeds/pack
€3.00
Musquee de Provence
Musquee de Provence produces pumpkin-shaped, ribbed, flattened fruits, around 2-7kg each. Ripen from green to brown-orange. Creamy, sweet, orange flesh. Stores well. Cucurbita moschata. 15seeds/pack
€3.00
Patisson White Squash
Patisson White Squash produces smaller, flattened, white fruits. Also called "mussel squash". Mild, tender, sweet flesh. Bush-variety, around 60cm high and 90cm wide. Cucurbita pepo. 7seeds/pack
€3.00
Redondo de Niza Zucchini
Redondo de Niza Zucchini produces smaller, round, light-green fruits, around 8cm in diameter. Mild, sweet, tender flesh. Bush-variety, around 60cm high and 90cm wide. Seeds are treated with thiram, sulfur, as a fungicide. Harmless, but seeds should not be eaten. Cucurbita pepo. 10seeds/pack
€2.50
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