Every year we choose a vegetable to explore the different cultivars of hoping for a better results or different experience. This year it is cucumbers.
As per our method of making sure we have enough plants for our fields we have started extra seedlings. With our share planted the rest have been placed at our gate.
The first time we took cucumber starts to market along came an elderly fellow an with a deep gruff voice said, “You got any Marketmore cucumber starts. Only darn cucumber worth growing.”
It has been our go to cuke for the last ten years. About two weeks ago a young lady asked if we had any. She has grown many different cultivars but the only one her rabbit really likes are the Marketmores.
The thick dark shiny green skin helps them stay plumped longer then others. Picked early they make great pickles and full size, awesome slicers.
Every seed company has advertizing about the diferent cultavors and it is our hope to find another cucumber that grows well and tastes better or?????
Olympian cuke
I wonder if the rabbit may like this one also.
Smooth skinned, highly productive, and very tasty. Olympian cucumbers produce fruits mid-season and perform as well outdoors in raised beds as in containers in the greenhouse. Fruits grow slightly longer than Marketmore at 22cm (8″). Olympian is a gynoecious Marketmore hybrid with tolerance to Anthracnose, angular leaf spot, scab, powdery mildew, and downy mildew. Gynoecious plants produce mostly female flowers for increased productivity, so the cucumbers just keep coming and coming all summer long. Provide steady moisture and fertile soil and you may be overwhelmed by the quantity of delicious fruits.
Spacemaster cuke
I have hopes for this cucumber for container growing.
Spacemaster cucumber was developed at Cornell University for its highly productive, but very compact vines. Dark green, smooth skinned fruits grow to 15-20cm (6-8″) long on individual stems that rarely exceed 90cm (36″). This compact growth makes them a superb choice for container growing or production in smaller gardens. Pick at a smaller size for crunchy pickles, or let them reach full size for slicing.
Lemon cuke
Attractive heirloom cucumbers are small and round with lemon colored skin. The lime-green flesh is very mild, sweet and never bitter. Very nice for slicing and easy to digest. Lemon cucumber seeds produce a vigorous long vine that does well on a trellis or fence. This productive open-pollinated variety was introduced to the US market from Australia by Samuel Wilson in 1894. Plants may become quite sprawly, but the fruit production is incredibly vigorous. Be sure to keep plants carefully picked so that no fruits are allowed to mature on the vine. This will lengthen the fruiting period.
Homemade Pickles
These blimp shaped cucumbers are medium green with small white spines and a crisp interior. You can pick them at 4cm (1″) for baby sweet pickles or wait for bigger ones. In time, they can grow to around 13cm (5″) long, but maintain their appealing pickle shape. Homemade Pickles cucumber seeds produce plants that are vigorous with excellent disease resistance and high yields. Provide a sturdy trellis for this rampant climber, and keep plants picked to keep more fruits coming over a long period. This cucumber can be eaten raw, but it is a little drier and crunchier than regular slicing cucumbers. These are the traits that make such high quality dill pickles.
Green finger cuke
Humans post about they are never being bitter, what they like about ‘Green Finger’ is that its skin is thin, tender, and smooth. Some cucumber varieties are so spiny that you want gloves when harvesting, and then the skin is so thick that you want to peel them before eating. Not ‘Green Finger,’ which are perfectly suited for picking and snacking on right in the garden next to the plant.
‘Green Finger’ can also be harvested when the cukes are the actual size of your finger up to the size of an average pickle, and they taste great.
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