Habitat & History

It is thought that the cucumber originated in the wild at the foothills of the northern India mountains were similar species still grow but it wasn’t until 3,000 years ago when the cucumber was fist cultivated in India.  From India it was then spread through out Greece and Western Europe.  When Columbus came to America, he brought with him many cultivational crops which included the cucumber, where it was eventually cultivated by the Native Americans and the Colonists in eastern North America as far north as Canada as seen in Figure 1.