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CUCUMBER, SQUSH, PUMPKINS & MELON STARTS

Cucumber seedlings (3" peat 2 plants/pot)

Marketmore 76

Cool Customer - NEW

Marketmore 76

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.


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

Green Finger

Cool Customer - NEW

Marketmore 76

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


 Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

Cool Customer - NEW

Cool Customer - NEW

Adam Jerkin F1 - NEW

 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 


Seeds sourced from

Johnny's Selected  Seeds

Adam Jerkin F1 - NEW

Adam Jerkin F1 - NEW

Adam Jerkin F1 - NEW

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


 Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

Calypso F1

Adam Jerkin F1 - NEW

Calypso F1

Exceptionally early, heavy yields of uniform, blocky fruits.


Firm, 1" diameter cukes are great for pickling with excellent eating quality. Consistently the earliest, most productive cuke in seed trials (by High Mowing) with an impressive disease resistance package. 


Vigorous gynoecious plants set only female flowers; Marketmore 76 is recommended for pollination.


Gynoecious (these varieties are special hybrids which produce predominantly female flowers. Seeds of a standard monoecious variety are needed for pollination, such as Marketmore 76


  • 4" fruit
  • 52 Days to maturity


Disease Resistance Details
High Resistance: Angular Leaf Spot, Anthracnose, Cucumber Mosaic Virus, Powdery Mildew, Scab


  Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

Suyo Long

Adam Jerkin F1 - NEW

Calypso F1

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


  Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds


sQUaSH & Pumpkin SEEDLINGS (3" peat pot, 1-2 plants/pot)

Waltham Butternut

Honey Boat Delicata

Waltham Butternut

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

Burgess Buttercup

Honey Boat Delicata

Waltham Butternut

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

Honey Boat Delicata

Honey Boat Delicata

Honey Boat truly taste like honey! 


 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

Spaghetti

Rheinau Gold Zucchini

Honey Boat Delicata

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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing seeds


Dark Green Zucchini

Rheinau Gold Zucchini

Rheinau Gold Zucchini

 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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing seeds

Rheinau Gold Zucchini

Rheinau Gold Zucchini

Rheinau Gold Zucchini

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

Mutabile Zucchini

Summer Straightneck

Summer Straightneck

 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

Summer Straightneck

Summer Straightneck

Summer Straightneck

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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds


Summer Crookneck

Summer Straightneck

Summer Crookneck

 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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

Cider Jack F1

New England Pie

Summer Crookneck

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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

Howden Pumpkin

New England Pie

New England Pie

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)


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

New England Pie

New England Pie

New England Pie

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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

Melons (3" peat pot, 2 plants/pot)

PMR Delicious 51 Melon

Klondike Blue Watermelon

Klondike Blue Watermelon

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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds


Klondike Blue Watermelon

Klondike Blue Watermelon

Klondike Blue Watermelon

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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds

Crimson Sweet Watermelon

Klondike Blue Watermelon

Crimson Sweet Watermelon

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


Seeds sourced from

High Mowing Seeds


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