Tanja
Salad cucumber Tanja is a good yielding, mixed flowering variety for open air cultivation (outdoor cucumber). The fruits are dark green, slim and around 20-25 cm long. Slightly prickly. Totally without bitterness.
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Characteristics
parthenocarp/ mixed flowering: mixed flowering
Origin
Breeder: b-d EHZMultiplier: Aufenhof Niederlützschera, Gärtnerei der Lebensgemeinschaft Bingenheim, Saatzucht Rose, Stefan Penov, Warmonderhofstede Cerifications: Demeter, EU-Standard
Cultivation
Direct sowing: open ground: from mid of May, only ridge and pickling varietiesCultivation note: Mixed flowered varieties should not be grown in the same greenhouse as female only varieties.Planting distance: 100-150 x 30-40 cmAmount of seed needed: direct sowing 20-30 g/aSeed germination temperature: 23-26 °COptimal amount of plants: ca. 2 plants/m²Raise in seed bed: for heated greenhouse: from mid of February for planting out mid of March for cold greenhouse: beginning of April for planting out beginning of May