Fresh and delicious, cucumbers can be enjoyed on their own, in salads and even cooked! Full of fibre, they are the darlings of our vegetable gardens. Cucumbers are a climbing plant. You can let it run on the ground or climb on a support or trellis.
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Some varieties to try
For a good all-around slicing cucumber:
- Marketmore 76
- Tourne-Sol Field cucumber
- Straight Eight
- Burpee Hybrid II
- Bristol
An awesome burpless slicer:
- Sweet Burpless Hybrid
- Telegraph
For a small garden or to grow in a pot:
- Spacemaster,
- Burpless Bush
- Bush Champion
- Peticue
For a Japanese-style cucumber:
- Suyo Long
- Burpless No 26
- Sweet Success
For delicious homemade pickles:
- Homemade Pickle
- Mathilde
- Pickalot Hybrid
- Arabian
Planting Tip:
Tall, trellised cucumber vines will shade other crops, so plant them along the north side of your garden, since the sun is usually coming from the south.
Garden companions:
tomatoes, spinach, basil, cabbages, marigold, thyme
Fact:
Cucumbers contain an as-yet unidentified compound that a percentage of folks find makes them "gassy." "Burpless" cucumbers cause less burping among taste-testers.
