From AwayToGarden.com and RobinhoodRadio.com, this is AwayToGarden with Margaret Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

If you think you know what a cucumber is, think again.

Spend even five minutes on the website of the Cucumber Shop, a passion project of today's

cucumber mad guest, Jay Tracy. And you'll realize

that you don't at all. The incredible diversity of cucumbers is our topic today, but first this message.

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California-based J. Tracy is a teacher and a father of 14s and also the person behind

the collection of exceptional and unusual cucumbers called the cucumber shop.

A male-order seed catalog, he created about 10 years ago and that evolved into cucumbershop.com

in 2019. I'm so glad to welcome him today.

Hi, how are you, Jay?

Doing well, Margaret, thanks a lot.

I really appreciate it.

I'm excited to be able to help people discover

a cucumber that's been here all along.

Yeah, though all these historic, amazing varieties.

So how long have you been collecting cucumbers?

So just to give a little bit of background,

since around 2008 was when,

well 2007 was when my last child was born,

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