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'Little Leaf' Cucumber |
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Slicing
Bush
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Pickling or slicing. Compact, multi-branched vines bear blocky, emerald-green, white-spined, medium-long fruit. Can be trellised. Parthenocarpic (plants can set fruit without pollination). Resistant to STM, bacterial wilt, downy mildew, powdery mildew, scab and cucumber mosaic virus.
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57-62
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Overall: (3.4 Stars)
Taste: (3.4 Stars)
Yield: (2.9 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (3.2 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 8
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KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 01/05/2022 by
Rachel Bowman-Abdi
- An intermediate gardener
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Durham, North Carolina, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| I was excited about the disease resistance of this variety, but it did not do well here. I suspect downy mildew, which is one thing this variety is not resistant to. The cukes I did get had very thick skin and a bland flavor—not sure whether that is about the variety or the disease. |
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Reviewed on 03/21/2015 by
NancyMA
- An experienced gardener
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Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I grew this because of its resistance to bacterial wilt. It did not succumb to wilt, but grew poorly and yielded very poorly. Flavor was just ok, better for pickles than fresh eating. |
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Reviewed on 12/23/2014 by
Little Minnie
- An experienced gardener
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Sherburne, Minnesota, United States
Frost Free Season: 123 - 143 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Little Leaf was an excellent pickling cucumber. It kept going regardless of weather and resisted disease very well. I saved 18 large fruits for seed and about 1/3 had viable seeds that had been pollinated by bees, so seed saving is possible (keep all seeds that sink in water). I had customers who bought it by the peck just for eating fresh! And I made a lot of pickles. Great for baby dills, bread and butter or eating fresh. |
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Reviewed on 01/16/2012 by
MBS
- An experienced gardener
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Oakland, Michigan, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| It does have small leaves, about 1/3 the size of regular cucumbers, but at least in my garden, it produced about 3 times as many leaves! Therefore negating any benefit from smaller leaves. It did not produce very well, in fact hardly any cucumbers at all, and despite having disease resistance mine succumbed to late blight and dried up and died. |
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Reviewed on 08/10/2010 by
Jay Tracy
- A novice gardener
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Pima, Arizona, United States
Frost Free Season: Fewer than 103 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Arkansas Little Leaf outperformed all other cucumber varieties for me this summer in Tucson, Arizona. Their parthenocarpic tendency allowed the fruit to set without pollination. This variety has been listed as open pollinated but I had a very hard time getting the female flowers to open up to allow for pollination. Although very slow to grow, it takes the heat, sets fruit like crazy and is incredibly vigorous and disease resistant. The plant grows very small- most vines are 1-2 feet long. Alright for eating- it would be a wonderful variety for pickling. |
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Reviewed on 01/19/2009 by
LongIsland
- An experienced gardener
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Suffolk, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Very reliable and easy to grow. Average yield. Excellent taste, especially when picked at 3-4". The vines sprawled all over, even though I had them trellised. Often cukes were hidden under the leaves on the ground and grew to oversized without being noticed. I also planted National Pickling and Homemade Pickles and found the Little-Leaf to be a lot more resistant to powdery mildew, consistently good tasting in all conditions, over the whole summer. They do take longer than average to produce; it helps to start these earlier. I'll definitely plant these again. |
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Reviewed on 08/31/2008 by
onion lover
- An experienced gardener
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Oxford, Maine, United States
Frost Free Season: 103 - 123 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Vines sprawl but yields poorly at best. I have noticed that, for me and my climate anyway, that the best yielding cucumbers are the cultivars that have the biggest leaves. Conversely, the cucumbers with small leaves yield poorly. Not sure if this is only true here, though. I would presume that H-19 Little Leaf must produce well somewhere, else it wouldn't have been released. |
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Reviewed on 01/27/2005 by
Nancy W
- An experienced gardener
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I grow these because they are immune to bacterial wilt, which is a big problem here. None of the standard picklers I've grown ever survived a full season; some years they were wiped out before yielding a single cuke. Little Leaf H-19 is never bothered by wilt, and they produce as many (or more) fine tasty pickling cukes as I can use. I seem to recall when I first started growing them noting that the vines are somewhat more prone to sprawl rather than climb, more than some I used to grow, but I haven't really compared. |
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