CUCUMBER, SQUSH, PUMPKINS & MELON STARTS

Remains the most widely-planted open-pollinated slicer. 

Dark green fruits stay green and mild-tasting even under heat stress. Multiple disease resistances keep plants vigorous and highly productive across a long picking season. 

• Vigorous
• Monoecious
• 8-9" fruit
• Open Pollinating
• 65 Days to maturity 

Disease Resistance Details
High Resistance: Cucumber Mosaic Virus, Powdery Mildew, Scab

Showed good resistance to angular leaf spot and anthracnose in High Mowing seed trials.

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Thin, tender skin, crisp flesh and a small seed cavity.

Green Finger rivals hybrids in both quality and yield.  A field or open tunnel variety bred by Cornell University; requires pollination for fruit set. Beit Alphas are similar to European/Dutch types with the same ribbed skin but smaller.

• Monoecious
• Gourmet Beit Alpha-type
• 6-8" fruit
• Open Pollinating
• 60 Days to maturity

Disease Resistance Details
High Resistance: Powdery Mildew, Papaya Ringspot Virus, Watermelon Mosaic Virus, Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus

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High Mowing Seeds

 Improved pickler selected for organic growers. 

A rugged organic pickler that produces uniform yields of attractive, blocky fruits with small seed cavities, exceptional crunch and flavor. Vigorous plants produce over a long harvest period and are tough enough to withstand the pressures of organic growing conditions.

• 4-5" fruit
• Open Pollinating
• 55 Days to maturity

Disease Resistance Details
Resilient vines hold up to late-season stress and disease much longer than many similar varieties 

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Early, heavy yields of gherkin-type fruit for pickling. 

"Fruit possesses a full, even shape with minimal tapering at a small size. Dense, crisp flesh and characteristic bumpy skin are most pronounced when young and help maintain crispness in pickling. Plants do not require pollination.

• Parthenocarpic (do not require pollination
• Seedless
• 3-4" fruit" 
• Hybrid F1
• 60 Days to maturity

Disease Resistance Details 

High Resistance: Cucumber Mosaic Virus, Powdery Mildew, Scab Intermediate Resistance: Downy Mildew

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High Mowing Seeds

Long Asian burpless cucumber with sweet flavor and crisp texture.

Great for fresh eating, pickling or cooking. Fruits are spiny when young, becoming smoother at peak maturity. Fruits tend to curl on one end; trellis vines for straight fruit. Widely adapted.

• Heat tolerant
• Asian
• Monoecious
• 15" fruit
• 60 Days to maturity

Disease Resistance Details
Intermediate Resistance: Powdery Mildew

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High Mowing Seeds

By far the most widely grown open-pollinated butternut with delicious, finely textured dark orange flesh.

Uniform fruits with smooth, tan skin that is easily peeled with a potato peeler. High Mowing's strain has been selected for uniformity of size, shape and yields. Excellent keeper if cured properly.

• Stores well
• Vining
• Uniform, 4-5 lbs
• 105 Days to maturity

Dark green fruits with golden orange, stringless flesh and sweet, rich flavor.

A long-time New England favorite! Typically produces 10-12 fruits per plant, with vines reaching 15' long. Our improved strain has a high percentage of clean, non-warty and uniform squash. Fruits have a gray button on the blossom end. 

• Uniform fruits
• Large, prolific vines
• 3-5 lbs
• 95 Days to maturity

Honey Boat & Delicata Bush

 Many claim that this refined Delicata is the "sweetest squash in existence". Long fruits have the traditional green striping of Delicatas, but with coppery skin instead of the classic yellow. Holds well and keeps its sweetness through storage.

• Exceptional flavor
• 1-1.5 lbs
• 100 days to maturity

Delicata Bush, AAS Winner

(earlier, 80 days)

Great pasta substitute!

Oblong light yellow fruits have very sweet flesh. Bake or boil this unusual vegetable and the flesh separates into long noodles resembling spaghetti, just top with sauce and serve.

• 4-5 fruits/plant
• 3-5 lbs
• Great pasta substitute
• 88 Days to maturity

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 Vigorous variety produces good yields of straight, smooth fruits.

An open-pollinated variety with bushy habit.  Abundant yields of lightly mottled dark green fruits. Pale greenish-white, firm flesh. 

• Abundant yields
• Harvest at 6-8"
• 50 Days to maturity

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Productive YELLOW ZUCHINNI

A delicate texture with a light flavor. Thin skin contributes to good eating quality with no need to peel. Smaller plants have an open growth habit and are productive over a long season. "The fruit do not grow as large as green zucchini – if you miss a few days of harvest you won’t be greeted with leg-sized fruit, but rather several forearm-sized ones." Throws the occasional green-fruited plant

• Smaller plants with open growth habit
• 55 Days to maturity

Seeds sourced from Adaptive Seeds

 Early, deep green fruit form on sturdy bush plants that are resistant to powdery mildew. 

The real benefit of Mutabile is that it yields consistently each week, staying productive for the whole season, where the hybrids go big and then fade out mid-season. Plants have an open canopy with few spines.

• Powdery mildew resistance
• 50 Days to maturity

Seeds sourced from Adaptive Seeds

Success PM Sraightneck

Open pollinating, high yielding yellow straighneck, disease free, smooth uniform, shape, best harvested 6-7".

• 6-7" yellow straight
• Disease free
• 50 Days to maturity

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High Mowing Seeds

 Best harvested at 5-6" long or smaller for best flavor and texture.   

Early, prolific yields. selected for yield, shape and quality. If fruit is left to overgrow, it can be used for a dark yellow, warty ornamental gourd (no longer edible).

• Crookneck shape
• Harvest at 5-6" long
• 50 Days to maturity

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A knock out Jack O’ Lantern with smooth bright orange skin and a well-attached handle.

Gorgeous medium-sized fruits are smooth and attractive; perfect for painting or carving. High Mowing Seed's earliest Jack with good yields of 2-3 fruits/plant. Bred by High Mowing in partnership with University of New Hampshire

• Jack O'Lantern 10-14 lb 
• Earlier, 95 Days to maturity

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The original Jack O’ Lantern

Rich orange color, deep ridges and sturdy handles. The most popular Jack O'Lantern among farmers and gardeners.

• Commercial standard 25 lb fruit
• Reliable and tolerant of black rot. 
• 115 Days to maturity (longer growing season pumpkin)

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High Mowing Seeds

Classic pie pumpkin with dry, stringless flesh and superior thick consistency in pies.

Attractive fruits have dark orange skin with light ribbing and well attached handles.

• Stores well
• 4-6 lb fruit

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High Mowing Seeds

Reliably early melon, ripening quickly for heavy yields of aromatic fruit. 

Juicy, perfectly sweet flesh is dark orange with creamy texture and strong flavor. Thinner skin than hybrids but holds well for market and in storage. Harvest at full slip. Bred by Dr. Henry Munger at Cornell 

•  Excellent resistance to powdery mildew
• Well adapted for northern growers. 
• 2-3 lbs

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The perfect picnic melon, with exceptional sweet flavor

  Vigorous, high-performance 1900s heirloom with green striped rind and bright red, sweet flesh. The highest Brix (sugar) reading of any variety in High Mowing Seed trials, with fruits averaging 10-16" long.  

• 10-25 lbs
• Heirloom
• High sugar content
• Resists sunburn and disease

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An excellent variety for gardeners and growers

Quality and reliability in a classic oblong melon with juicy sweet flesh.   with vibrant red, firm, fine-textured flesh and silver and dark green striping.  Classic sweet flavor

• 15-25 lbs

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High Mowing Seeds