Cucumbers

Cucumber vine

Cucumbers are warm-season crops that traditionally have required a lot of garden space. With a trellis or newer compact varieties, cucumbers may be grown in small spaces and even in containers. An increasing diversity of cucumber types are available to a home gardener. Some types of cucumbers are best grown in a greenhouse or high tunnel, but many will grow well in a regular garden.

  • Pickling cucumbers. These varieties are short and blocky in shape, with a firm flesh that makes a crisp pickle. They frequently have very prickly skin.
  • Slicing cucumbers are long and slender, with a dark-green skin. They are usually not as prickly as pickling cucumbers.
  • Asian cucumbers. These cucumbers are also long and slender with relatively thin skin but can have prickles. They have been bred to be both burpless and bitter-free.
  • English or greenhouse. English cucumbers are very long with very thin, tender skins. They are usually grown in a greenhouse and may not be as heat tolerant.
  • This long, light green fruit is actually more closely related to melons than cucumbers but is typically used like a cucumber.
  • Beit alpha (Persian). These cucumbers are relatively short with very thin, smooth skins, similar to English cucumbers. They typically have few seeds.

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