Should We Talk, Cukes?

[Jared77]

I'm boring it's straight 8s here. After the gherkin debacle of 2010 I went back to just buying cuke starts. Those and the burpe picklers (drawing a blank on variety). They do well and everybody likes them. I usually plant 4 of each and have plenty of them by mid summer.

However I have a bunch volunteers this year. Didn't pull them yet so will be interesting.

Good call on moisture control. I mulched mine with grass clippings and straw to keep weeds down and the cukes off the soil. I had so many I would feed the neighbors chickens by the bucketful I had so many. They'd appear and swell to size so fast I couldn't stay on top of them. Split them lengthwise and the fence over they'd go.

From then on that's been my cucumber care plan

 

[animalmom]

This is my first year with cucumbers, and only because I got some free seeds. It is called Barese, an Italian heirloom that is really a melon that you use as a cucumber. Picked at around 6" and they are very thin skinned and very tasty. They are a little furry but that rubs off easily with a soft brush or cloth. If you let them go until later in the season they turn into a thick skinned honeydew type melon. Been enjoying them now and have designated 3 to go to melon for the seeds for next year. Very prolific and will grow it again... just not 10 plants -- maybe only 4 .

 

[digitS']

Oh boy!

Another interesting variety that italianseedandtool.com sells and a really different cucumber.

It might have a flavor like the Armenian cucumber that I grew ... once. But, Barese is green. Much better choice for a veggie color than brown ...

Thank you for sharing, @animalmom .

Steve

 

[Beekissed]

Seeing my first cukes now...tiny, baby things.

 

[Smart Red]

Keep watching! Those babies grow up overnight.

 

[majorcatfish]

planted 6 marketmore 76 this spring...holy cow do we have cucumbers thank goodness we love cucumbers, pick anywhere from 7-12 everyday

and then there is the salt and pepper cucumbers...

then there is the Armenian striped cucumber which steve informed us that it's truly in the melon family.

salt, vinegar,raw, stuffed and broiled....dont care love them
even going to try a late season crop this year.....

 

[Mauldintiger]

I second the Marketmore 76, the 6 pants I have are killing it on my cattle panel.

 

[Smart Red]

Plants? Or pants? I am trying to imagine your cattle panel.

 

[Nyboy]

 

[Jared77]

Nice!!! I've done the Marketmore 76 as well with great results too. Had to go with what I could find. Have a BUNCH of cucumber volunteers too that have popped up and I haven't had the heart to remove yet.

Those and zucchini. Have a million of them no idea where they all sprung up from since they are nowhere near I'd expect them to be.