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Old March 19, 2015   #16
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Burr Gherkins look like baby hedgehogs.

Now I have played with and kept warm and alive baby hedgehogs til they were big enough to turn back outside. I think they as cute as can be , but that cuke..... Ewwwwwwww.... Wonder if they taste any good. They sure don't look very appetizing with all them pickery things on them. Looks almost as bad as that one cucke years ago that I tried. I got it cuz it was pretty and it held it self like for almost 6 months but the inside was nothing but pure gelatinous seeds. I spent days close to home and the tp paper.

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Starlight, I grow a couple of hybrid picklers that are really productive for me, Sassy and Eureka. Sassy grows really nice darker green, and nice length to girth ratio. Eureka was bred for trellis production and climbs a fence well with a little help, not quite as dark or long. Sorry I don't know why the slicers grow for you but not the picklers they should have basically the same needs.

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Thanks for the suggestions Marcus. I'll have to get some of those types too to try. Especially with our heat and humidity you never know what is or isn't going to live down here.

I don't know either. I give them same amount of water and ferts as I do the slicers. Same amount of sun too. With them being smaller cukes, do they need some shade maybe?

I knew the deer had been near the plants as I sw all their tracks. I think they was trying to get to the beans and tomatoes, but were afraid to cross the pallets and fish wire I had round them.

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I'm going to pick up a pack of National Pickling seeds later today. You all helped make up our minds
If you don't find any seeds, like I say just holler at me and I'll send ya some.

Oh and before I forget. The one lady says she needs enough pickling cukes to fill a pickling crock. Have no idea what one of them looks like. Anybody know about how many cukes that is I need to try and grow?
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Old March 19, 2015   #17
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""Oh and before I forget. The one lady says she needs enough pickling cukes to fill a pickling crock. Have no idea what one of them looks like. Anybody know about how many cukes that is I need to try and grow?""

Your going to need quit a few plants because you will have to have many of them at the right size at the same time.


If it is a 5 gallon crock it will hole about a half bushel.
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Old March 19, 2015   #18
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Starlight,
I had 500' of pickles last year and they averaged 4-5 bushels a day. The plants were spaced one foot apart and I picked them at about the 3" size, thats the size most are looking for for crock pickles here. Agree with Worth about half bushel for 5 gals. You might ask how big her crock is a lot of my customers just use one gal glass jars. Anyway if you need a half bu. in a day you would need about 50 - 75 plants , if they produce like mine. The key to good crisp pickles is to do them the day they're picked. Don't think they would need shade ,our sunlight is pretty intense here in CO.
When most people talk about crocks they refer to the old mason jars Redwing being a famous one and I've seen them from 1 pint to 50 gals. in size.
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Starlight, I've been thinking about this thread tonight, and all the different ways I've grown cucumbers. I've grown MarketMore, Straight 8, and Lemon cukes for the past 4 years. For us, early cukes taste wonderful, but as it gets over 90F - they get a bitter taste. When it's too hot, I cut them up and feed our compost bin.

This year, I ordered some Dragon's Egg cucumbers from Baker Creek. They're white and egg shaped. I'm going to plant them very soon - hoping to get some before it gets too hot here. I did forget about buying a pack of Straight 8 and Marketmore - so I'll be growing them again.

I have grown them on the ground with no real success. I built a trellis for them one year. It worked, but was a lot of work. What I've found works best for me is growing them on our garden fence.

I looked up how to grow pickling cukes, but I kept reading you grow them the same as you do regular ones. I did learn that pickling cukes are smaller -preferred pickles size, and that otherwise, you can pickle any of them.
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I found an old unopened pack of market more 76 and planted them out today along with some squash.
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Old March 27, 2015   #21
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I will second National Pickling. I've had good luck with those, myself. I agree with the ladies - true pickling cucumbers get less mushy when pickling than regular slicing ones, even if you pick the slicing ones at the same size.
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Old March 27, 2015   #22
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Boston Pickling is the best I have ever tried for making pickles. It is extremely super productive and the vines are super healthy. Just make sure to give plants plenty of room because the vines spread out. Keep an on on the fruit cause one day they are baby cukes, and next time you turn around they are slicing size .. No joke!! The cukes grow really fast. Just give them the best growing conditions like lots of compost, full sun and the right amount of water and they will reward you with hundreds of pickling cukes. Any that get big are used as slicing cukes. Never bitter for me.

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