WCS Homemade Pickles Seed Pack
Homemade Pickles
These pickling cucumbers are medium green with small white spines and a crisp interior. Pick them at 5cm (2″) for baby pickles or wait for larger ones.
In time, they can grow to around 13cm (5″) long but maintain their appealing pickle shape. The plants are vigorous with excellent disease resistance and high yields. Provide a sturdy trellis for this rampant climber, and keep plants picked to keep more fruit 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 homemade pickles.
Matures in 60 days
Difficulty: Easy
Season: Warm season
Exposure: Full-sun
Harvest
For a continuous harvest, make successive plantings every 2 to 3 weeks until about 3 months before first fall frost date. Keep picking the cucumbers regularly, because if they get too big, the plant will stop producing. About one month before first frost, start pinching off new flowers so plants channel energy into ripening existing fruit.
Companion Planting
Plant cucumbers beside asparagus, beans, Brassicas, celery, corn, dill, kohlrabi, lettuce, onion, peas, radish, and tomatoes. Avoid planting near potatoes and sage. Both corn and sunflowers can act as a trellis for cucumbers to good effect. Dill will help cucumbers by attracting predatory insects, and nasturtiums is said to improve the flavour and growth of cucumbers.
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