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 will realize that you don’t. At all. The incredible diversity of cucumbers is our topic today.
California-based Jay Tracy is a teacher, and a father of four teens—and also the person behind the collection of exceptional and unusual cucumbers called The Cucumber Shop, a mail order seed catalog he created about 10 years ago and that evolved into cucumbershop dot com in 2019.
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