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15 Best Cucumbers for Pickling

1

Boston Cucumber

Boston Pickling cucumbers are known for their continuous yield and firm, crunchy flesh that holds the flavor of the brine

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Bush  Cucumber

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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3

Calypso Cucumber

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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4

H-19 Little Leaf Cucumber

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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5

National  Cucumber

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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Wisconsin SMR 58 Cucumber

Highly productive pickling cucumber variety favored by midwesterns and recommended for trellising to facilitate easy harvesting and straight fruit growth.

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7

Boothby’s Blond Cucumber

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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8

Burpee Cucumber

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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9

Hokus Cucumber

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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10

Lemon Cucumber

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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Miniature White Cucumber

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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12

Parisian Cucumber

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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13

Rhinish pickling Cucumber

Rhinish Pickle' cucumbers are crunchy and sweet, perfect for making little sour pickles at three or four inches.

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14

Supremo Cucumber

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

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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