Articles - Cucumber
Polaris reduces growing costs
Polaris telegraph cucumber is the idela choice for winter and early spring production. Polaris has a open plant, is well aerated and very fast growing... more...
Rembrandt power in spring
Rembrandt cucumber once again proved its prower for spring cucumber production. Today iin Auckland the plants were strong and very productive, producing high yields of... more...
Rembrandt Top Quality
Rembrandt continues to perform for numerous growers with a wide range of management techniques.The strength of the plant has helped in this period of fluctuating... more...
Nickerson-Zwaan Cucumber Breeding Programme
Today at the Nickerson-Zwaan research greenhouses in The Netherlands, cucumber breeder Cees Neefjes showed off the new developments in their cucumber breeding. It was great... more...
Powerful Polaris charges through winter
This week in the Auckland region the cucumber variety Polaris bred by Nickerson-Zwaan has really shone in the mid winter days. Polaris has increased in... more...
Polaris shines in winter
The team at Sharma Produce are happiest when growing and packing POLARIS F1 cucumbers! Mr. Sharma the owner and president of South Auckland based cucumber... more...
Strong seedling vigour
Vigour together with our breeding partners Nickerson-Zwaan have identified an extremely vigorous seed lot of Polaris for this seasons sowings in New Zealand. Vigour over... more...
Triamx offering 3-way Protection
For the past two years Vigour has been testing a new range of new Telegraph cucumbers bred by Nickerson-Zwaan. From this breeding program a new variety has... more...
Rembrandt grower pictures
Neil and Christine Yearbury, cucumber growers from Drury today sent these photos of thier current crop of Rembrandt. Neil and Christine have been growing Rembrandt for... more...
EU rediscovers taste for bendy cucumbers
It's official: European diktats on the size and shape of fruit and vegetables are bananas. Even the European Commission now wants them scrapped to avoid... more...
Carmen 25 years on and still growing strong
Dave & Diedrie Barton started growing cucumbers on the northern outskirts of Christchurch over 25 years ago and over that time they have established Coolcumber... more...
More generative cucumber
Over the past 12 months we have been testing a range of new cucumber varieties bred by Nickerson-Zwaan with excellent results. The most outstanding variety... more...
Carmen springs into action
Island Horticulture are the largest cucumber producers in the South Island they have grown thier business soley on the reliable performance of Carmen. Today I... more...
Polaris outstanding in 2007
POLARIS has cemented its position as the number one winter cucumber in New Zealand; in both quality and first grade marketable yield. Cucumber growers have... more...
Hope Hothouses grow with Vigour
Hope Hothouses have been using the Nickerson-Zwaan bred cucumbers supplied by Vigour exclusively for the past two seasons. Stuart has had excellent results from both... more...
Excellent Production from Nickerson-Zwaan Cucumbers in Spring
In the Auckland region today, Steve McArthur visited with a range of greenhouse cucumber producers who were very happy with the results of their Nickerson-Zwaan... more...
Polaris finishes strongly in Winter
Polaris has really thrived this winter in these tough conditions of low light and colder than usual temperatures. Some growers report going down as low... more...
Rembrandt starts well later in Winter
Early plantings of Rembrandt cucumber are looking promising in the Auckland region; the first harvest in this greenhouse is producing very well with large well... more...
Polaris surprises in the heat
Today I had the pleasure of visiting one of the neatest cucumber growing operations run by Somerset Growers at Mangawhai. Their greenhouses are kept in... more...
Hot and Sticky - Rembrandt masters the conditions
Many of you would have been impressed with your harvest of Rembrandt F1 cucumber in spring, where it made impressive quality and size whilst producing... more...
Carmen impresses north and south
Visiting the Vigour greenhouse growers in Canterbury today was Arie of Exception in Pukekohe. Exception are soon to be New Zealand's largest greenhouse cucumber producers... more...
A valuable Rembrandt uncovered
This spring, growers have been very impressed with Rembrandt cucumber.Bred by Nickerson-Zwaan for spring and autumn production, we have had numerous commercial plantings of Rembrandt... more...