Description
Cucumber Little Leaf
Cucumis sativus
Excellent quality gherkin for marinades. Harvest between 6 and 10 cm in length. Plants are compact, 3 to 5 feet long, and have very small leaves, making them easy to harvest. Extremely productive and highly resistant to disease. For indoor or outdoor growing*. 58 days.
*One of the few cultivars that is reproducible and parthenocarpicIt produces both male and female flowers, but does not always need pollination to produce cucumbers, which means it can be grown indoors or outdoors under netting. Note, however, that this is not an easy crop to grow indoors, and you can expect a certain number of female flowers to abort before production begins.
Full sun. Well-drained, rich soil. Direct sowing after the last frost or indoor sowing 2 to 5 weeks before. Protect young plants from insects at the beggining of the season. 1.5 cm deep. 40 cm between plants.
Germination: 99% in November 2025
Ecological seeds produced for us by Alexandre Guérin, Prendre Racine, Charrette, Quebec.
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This is our favorite variety for making dill pickles, it’s really good quality for pickling. Its shape is perfect, I like that it has a small diameter compared to its length, so you can fit more into the pots. And it harvests much better than other varieties, since you can easily find the cucumbers between its small leaves.
To eat fresh, it’s a little blander than others, but it’s always crunchy and bitter-free.
We grow it in the field, and have not tested it indoors.
A girl who plants seeds –
I planted these light leaf cucumbers in northern Nova Scotia, during the drought of 2025. They grew very well. The little pickling cucumbers are great for snacks, similar to mini munchers. I sold them at the market in “snack packs” with cherry tomatoes and mini sweet peppers. They were a hit.
I net the plants until they started flowering. When I saw that there where no cucumber bugs in my garden, I uncovered them. It’s good there is an option to net this variety.
My garden beds are 4 feet wide. I planted the seeds in a row, straight down the middle of the bed, at 1 foot apart. The small plants did not leave the 4 foot wide bed. It was prefect spacing.
I will grow this variety again in 2026. I recommend.
Mélissa –
Le concombre Little Leaf a conquis mon coeur. Le plant donne de petits concombres bien dodus d’environ 6 po de long. Ils ont en effet un goût neutre, mais ma famille et moi n’avons eu aucun mal à les manger crus. J’ai ciblé le Little Leaf pour ses petites feuilles, qui font qu’il n’ombrage pas mes autres légumes comme le feraient les autres variétés de concombres en culture intérieure. Sa reproductibilité et sa parthénocarpie rendent cette variété très polyvalente; son potentiel est énorme, et sa productivité m’a laissée très satisfaite. Les fleurs mâles du concombre sont aussi très délicieuses et prolifiques; le Little Leaf en fait tellement que j’ai pu me récolter un bol de celles-ci quasiment à tous les jours! J’ai adoré <3
Catherine –
Bonjour Julie. Little Leaf est un concombre assez neutre, effectivement. C’est vraiment un cornichon pour les marinades plus qu’un concombre à manger cru. Pour ce qui est de la productivité, il faudrait voir ce qui s’est passé: nous, avec 2 plants, on a fait toutes nos réserves de pickles pour l’année, et on en mange à toutes les semaines.
Julie –
Très décevant,donne peu de concombres,concombres neutres,je n’aime vraiment pas.