General Lee Slicing Cucumber

Description

(66 days) F-1 hybrid. “General Lee does amazingly well here.… Yields longer than any other through heat, humidity, drought and bugs,” relates Linda Paul of Barhamsville, VA. Also a pretty fair performer up north, this gynoecious General continues to conquer some Yankee gardeners and farmers. High yields of uniform straight dark-green white-spined 8–8½” slicers don’t peter out in the halcyon days of summer. Doesn’t develop yellow “bellies” and retains that good Sweet Salad flavor. From a May 13 direct seeding, CR’s 2012 harvest began July 8 and continued into late August. Despite persistent drought, half the fruits were still of marketable quality in mid-August. Just don’t go putting up any statues! Tolerant to scab, CMV, PM and DM