I decided to try doing a short video showing my little seed haul that came in the mail today.

The free seeds that came with the order were Bushy Cucumbers, so I went to look them up.

From the website:

A Russian heirloom that was introduced by Seed Savers Exchange and grown in Dacha gardens near Moscow, Russia. Productive and early tolerating cooler nights better than others! Great for pickles! Vines grow to 5 feet long. (45-50 days to maturity)

So, a pickling cucumber and, looking at the days to maturity, these can be direct sown, rather than started indoors.

I will make decisions on what we will be direct sowing after I get an idea of how the winter sowing experiment turned out, and see what growing space we end up having. If the winter sowing experiment failed, we’ll have lots of room!

The Re-Farmer