your choice of slicing cucumbers
 

With so many slicers to choose from,what's your choice?:yes:Posted in the wrong forum index by accident.I would like to move this to the correct index but can't find out how to delete this.Sorry.

Lemon is the only one i grow. Does well for me in my climate. 5 or 6 vines at the end of my
pea/bean trellis bed. Thin skinned so no peeling. Minor tiny tender seeds so no seeding.
(picked small-ish). Great fresh fridge pickles, (i don't 'can'). I can get great cukes at local farm stands very cheap if i need that. So Lemon is my choice for the home garden.

They do have small 'needles' like cactus but slide right off easily with a glove in a water rinse bath.

[QUOTE=cjp1953;631815]With so many slicers to choose from,what's your choice?:yes:Posted in the wrong forum index by accident.I would like to move this to the correct index but can't find out how to delete this.Sorry.[/QUOTE]

I bought Garden Sweet Burpless today.I'm in zone 6b.

Sweet success, excelsior, h-19 little leaf, salt & pepper are my main crops with cucamelon and lemon as novelty/uniques.

Sweet Success is the only cuke I'll eat. I like pickles, but not enough to pick cucumbers every day. Most people near me grow only picklers, and eat the large ones fresh, which turns my stomach and made me hate cukes for most of my life.

Japanese soyu in hanging baskets or in the ground with a fence to climb on.

Strait eight and market more 76.
Worth

Market More 76 and Muncher

Sweet Success and Tasty Green.

People eat those bumpy picklers raw? Ick!

I do I love them real cucumber taste cant beat it.
Worth.

[QUOTE=cjp1953;631822]I bought Garden Sweet Burpless today.I'm in zone 6b.[/QUOTE]
I think you made a good choice. Garden Sweet is my wife's favorite slicing cucumber. I've been growing them for the last 4 years with great results. Very prolific production growing vertically with long straight cukes. I end up with so many that I end up taking bags to a former coworker who also loves them. I got my seeds from Morgan County.

I was wondering if I made a good choice.I looked up some of the best slicers before I went to Lowes.They have a good selection and found Burpees Garden Sweet.

General Lee is my favorite- it is super crunchy- my pet peeve is a watery textured cucumber- love Armenian cukes, too.

It depends on the soil, in my opinion, but in our garden, I like Monika, so far. Beit Alpha is a good one, too. Neither get bitter (although quite old Beit Alpha fruits do get sour like lemons—not bitter, though).

Bushy seems to be an excellent one in my friend's garden, but it didn't prosper in ours (and it was very bitter when over-ripe in our garden); I mostly had it in pickles (which were excellent), but the fresh one I had from my friend was pretty good.

Viridis F1 is the best tasting cucumber I've ever had, bar none.

Deborah,

YES! I love pickling cucumbers raw. Sometimes they need to be peeled, true. They're so much crunchier and they don't have that watery seed mass inside. For years I grew Snow's Fancy Pickling but that last few years I've grown Sumter and it seems to fight the mildew about a month longer. I use them for both pickles and salads.

Well.... OK....:cute:

I stopped buying those disgusting dark green waxed burp-less cucumbers in the store years ago.
ALL I buy is the small pickling cucumbers.
My extra goat gene allows me to eat skin bumps and all.:)
Worth

Worth, you gotta try Sweet Success. Parthenocarpic is the true burpless. The plant can't make viable seeds. There are what look like tiny seeds inside them, but they are just a husk; they dry to nothing. I don't grow a lot of them, because I hate buying seeds, but it is one great cuke for eating.

Strait Eight

We grew one that was lemon. It was interesting with a bold taste and no shelf life to speak of.

Sweet Success, Diva, and Suyo Long are my favorites. From 2 mounds of Sweet Success plants I got enough cukes to can 30 pints of pickle slices (Dill and Bread & Butter). Diva wasn't as productive but I love the taste. And Suyo Long looks so interesting sliced in salads.

MikeInCypress

Lemon is to be picked small and still green this is a mistake many people make with it.

Worth

National Pickling, is my favorite slicer.:lol:

Cross country.
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Cucumbers have stated to produce. Cross country is excellent for juicing and slicing, and pickling. The hybrid is most prolific.The female flower emerges with a small cuke attached and the male without. It is possible to pollinate with a small paint brush. If the female is not pollinated then the cuke dies and falls off. With the shortage of bees in my garden I contemplated hand pollination, but apparently not necessary now, since fruit is forming.

My favorite is General Lee- it has the real old fashioned crunch and is not watery like some newer varieties are. Also love Armenian--

In our parts, 'Lebanese' cucumber tastes great. I grew it last year and got great tasting fruit before the plant succumbed to the beetles.

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