why do cucumbers i grow in my garden have seeds and the shop varieties?do not have seeds?

Answer 1

You are buying "seedless" cucumbers in the store. They are grown from special seeds that produce only female flowers, which are not pollinated by the male pollen and thus don't set seed. Most home gardeners can't provide the specialized conditions that seedless cuke varieties thrive under; they are generally grown in greenhouses where conditions can be controlled. So we grow the old-fashioned kind where bees visit the male blossoms and then the female blossoms, which makes seeds in the cucumbers.

Answer 2

People don't like the seeds and so the shops breed them without or use a variety that doesn't produce seeds. Then surly without seeds we'd run out of cucmbers?

Answer 3

Cucumbers you find in the store come from plants that have not been pollinated by bees. A cucumber plant must be pollinted in order to produce seeds (and produce off-spring).

Answer 4

my dad use to grow cucumbers years ago and i asked him the same question , he told me that the ones you buy in the shops are the males and the ones with the seeds are the females , i thought he was just messing , i actually found out years later that it was true.

Answer 5

Probably because the shop ones are 'forced' grown and therefor sterile - yours naturally grown are healthy and much tastier..

Answer 6

It's the variety that you've grown.