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'Japanese Climbing' Cucumber

Sub-Category:	Slicing Vine

Sub-Category 2:
Description:	Slicing or pickling. Vines bear 7- to 9-inch by 3-inch, light-green fruit.
Days To Maturity:	58-65
Seed Sources:	Seed Savers Exchange - updated in 2014

Rating Summary

Overall: (3.0 Stars) Taste: (5.0 Stars) Yield: (4.0 Stars) Ease/Reliability: (2.0 Stars)

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Number of Reviews: 1

KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease

Reviewed on 07/20/2011 by Dirt Poet - An intermediate gardener
Overall Taste Yield Ease	Livingston, Michigan, United States Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days Soil Texture: Sand Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40') Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
This is far and away the best tasting cucumber I\'ve grown. Yield is quite good while the plants are producing, but in my area they only produce for a few weeks before succumbing to disease. Spraying with fungicides on a regular schedule hasn\'t helped. I\'ve stopped growing them, since they only give me enough cukes to remind me that the other cuke varieties I grow are bland and boring.

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