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Boston Pickling cucumbers are known for their continuous yield and firm, crunchy flesh that holds the flavor of the brine
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Compact cucumber varieties are perfect for small spaces and containers; while their growing season is shorter, continuous planting can increase the yield.
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Calypso pickling cucumbers are disease-resistant, high-yielding, and great for both fresh eating and pickling; grow them on a trellis for convenience.
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The large leaves on a cucumber plant provide shading for the developing fruits.
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H-19 is a compact pickling cucumber that yields plenty of fruit from its multiple vining branches, making it ideal for small gardens and containers.
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Developed by the National Pickle Packers Association, which produces short, thick cucumbers throughout the season that are perfect for packing into jars
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Highly productive pickling cucumber variety favored by midwesterns and recommended for trellising to facilitate easy harvesting and straight fruit growth.
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Boothby family's creamy-skinned heirloom cucumbers have black spines, mature in 55-65 days, grow over six feet long, great for pickling
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Cucumbers can be grown in soilless medium, such as in water (hydroponic)
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Burpee Pickler' is an early-maturing, known for producing heavy yields of uniform, pale green, three- to five-inch cukes with small seeds and thin skin.
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Hokus' is an heirloom pickling cucumber that produces uniform, spiny gherkins that can be harvested at one to four inches in length
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Unique variety with a sweet, mild flavor and crisp texture, suitable for fresh eating and pickling, and has bright yellow skin with light orange mottling.
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This open-pollinated cucumber variety produces sweet and crunchy fruits, perfect for snacking, with a compact growth habit and creamy skin for easy harvesting.
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Cucumbers can cool the body and the blood, which gave rise to the phrase ‘cool as a cucumber’.
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Parisian,’ aka ‘Improved Bourbonne,’ is six-inch fruits with medium green flesh and pronounced spines, suitable for pickled cornichons or fresh slicing.
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Rhinish Pickle' cucumbers are crunchy and sweet, perfect for making little sour pickles at three or four inches.
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Burpee's 'Supremo' is a compact, bushy hybrid variety that produces sweet and mild-flavored, dark green, three- to four-inch cucumbers with pale stripes.
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Kirby cucumbers have thick, bumpy, porous skin, a mild flavor, and a crunchy texture that makes them one of the best pickling cucumbers.
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