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
Cultivation
Seed germination temperature: 23-26 °CPlanting distance: 100-150 x 30-40 cmOptimal amount of plants: ca. 2 plants/m²Sowing depth: ca. 2 cmSuitable for growing: open ground, under glassAmount of seed needed: direct sowing 20-30 g/aCultivation note: Mixed flowered varieties should not be grown in the same greenhouse as female only varieties.
bred by
increasingly from
Auenhof Niederlützschera
The Auenhof Niederlützschera, managed by Oliver Leipacher, is a Bioland-certified farm located in Ostrau, Germany.
Gärtnerei der Lebensgemeinschaft Bingenheim
The farm of the Lebensgemeinschaft Bingenheim is located in the direct neighbourhood of the Bingenheimer Saatgut AG, also in Echzell-Bingenheim, in the Wetterau region at the transition to the basalt ridge of the Vogelsberg. It operates on biodynamic principles, growing vegetables and producing seeds.
Annegret Rose
Our partner farm Rose Saatzucht is located in the north of Erfurt. There, Annegret Rose has been passionately growing and propagating her impressively beautiful peonies for many years. Before a root can be lifted for sale, the perennial grows in her fields for around 6-7 years. Since 1993, the traditional farm has been cultivating a wide variety of over 200 different types of vegetables, herbs and flowers under Demeter guidelines for seed production.
Stefan Penov
Warmonderhofstede
Warmonderhof B.V. is a biodynamic farm, accompanied by an arable and dairy farm. The garden is also used to train students at the biodynamic agricultural school, which is located on the same site.
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