Loading... Please wait...Cucumber, Half Long of Puglia. Green cucumber/melon type that Italians favor. Early, productive, very nice taste. Pick before they lighten up in color. Sow 5-6 seeds/hill, spaced 4" apart, after soil is warm in the spring (a week or two after last frost date). Thin to 3 plants per hill. Space hills at three feet and rows at six feet. 55 days. 4 gram packet, 70-100 seeds.