Cucumber Marketmore 76

The most reliable outdoor cucumber for British gardens. Cucumber Marketmore 76 produces dark-skinned, full-flavoured cucumbers on vigorous vines that are resistant to cucumber mosaic virus — the disease that devastates most outdoor cucumber crops in a wet British summer. Open-pollinated, productive, and outstanding sliced fresh or pickled.

• Cucumis sativus 'Marketmore 76' — Half-Hardy Annual (open-pollinated, disease-resistant)
• Sow: April–May indoors; plant out June; harvest: July–September
• Full sun; rich, well-drained soil — water generously
• Train up a trellis or cane frame; pinch side shoots after 2 leaves
• Resistant to cucumber mosaic virus — reliable in wet summers
• Harvest regularly to encourage continuous production