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Doncaster - England

Does anyone know were I can get some long cucumber seed from as I want to have a go at growing a long cumber?

12/23/2009 3:06:58 AM

Netherlands

There are some seeds from Alf Cobb's (old) WR line in the EGVGA auction.

Lot 4c - Record Breaking Giant Veg Seeds

These are seeds from private collections of growers that have grown several world records. This is your chance to get them all in one shot!

AMARANTH - Giant Amaranth A. australis (2008) - many seeds
BEETROOT - Mammoth heavy type - grew 51.0 Wursten 09 - ±15 seeds
CARROT - heavy class from the UK - ±20 seeds
CARROT - long class - St.Valery - grew WR 19 ft Joe Atherton - ±15 seeds
CUCUMBER - second generation WR long cucumber from Alf Cobb - 2 seeds
MARROW - 73.6 Wursten 09 [118.8 Glazebrook x sib] 118.8 grew 206.5 Wursten and 120 Glazebrook - 2 seeds
PARSNIP - Gladiator F1 - the heavy type used by many UK growers - ±15 seeds
PARSNIP - Exhibition Long - the long type - ±15 seeds
RADISH - Minowase Daikon type - Japanese type for weight - ±10 seeds
SUNFLOWER - Norm Craven's Heijms & Craven White line - 2007 (seeds from 16-25 ft tall plants) 10 seeds
SUNFLOWER - Norm Craven's Markham Black line - 2007 (seeds from his 16-23 ft tall plants) 5 seeds
TOMATO - Big Zac [first generation seeds] 3 seeds
WATERMELON - 239 Leonard 08 [197 Leonard x 211 Leonard] Canadian record watermelon - grew 211.5 Westfall - 2 seeds

http://egvga.webs.com/seedauction.htm

12/28/2009 3:25:06 AM