General information and discussion about cultivating melons, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins and gourds.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Brownville, Ne
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The Diva that my wife grows and has grown for a couple of years has been the best tasting and most productive she has ever grown. And that variety stayed sweet and crisp right up to frost.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: washington
Posts: 497
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Yes Diva has been our favorite too, even for pickles,stays crisp better than any other kind that we've tried. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: In the snowy desert of SE Idaho
Posts: 111
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My favorites are Beit Alpha, Shintokiwa, Telegraph Improved and Miniature White (for containers). I grow outdoors, in the ground and a few patio containers and don't have time to fuss over plants more than helping the occasional vine onto the trellis. I prefer thin skins that don't need peeling. I try about 6-8 slicing cucumbers and about the same amount of pickling each year and for slicers these are so far the most dependable and delicious for me. I don't usually spend the money on hybrids since the few times I have they didn't impress me. They always seem like they want to be babied in a greenhouse or something, the vigor just isn't there in my experience, and since I am usually happy with flavor and production of the OPs I am not really motivated to keep trying the hybrids.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Sioux Falls, SD USA
Posts: 17
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We've always grown Marketmore and Beit Alpha. Those are both really good.
This year we're going to try Silver Slicer. I haven't grown a white cucumber before but it's supposed to have a great taste and to never get bitter. It's a cross between Marketmore and Boothby's Blonde and is said to have the taste of the Boothby's Blonde and the disease resistance of the Marketmore. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2021
Location: Coastal CT, zone 7a
Posts: 165
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I'm not much of a cucumber eater, but I did grow Dragon's Egg cucumber the past couple of seasons, in a raised bed with a trellis to climb. Highly productive over a long period, and not bitter even when picked a bit late. As the name implies it is a white cucumber, and quite attractive. I'd grow it again, over green cucumbers.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2014
Location: illinois
Posts: 281
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Sweet Slice and Sassy, both F1. Use both for pickles but S.Slice is best for fresh eating.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southeast Texas
Posts: 287
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I read this thread and added the following to my grow list:
Sweet Success - very early, each vine had 4 to 6 large cucumbers, taste was good, the vines with large cucmbers hanging in the air were really impressive Sweet Slice - very productive, good size, held up ok in the refrigerator and taste was very good Diva - productive, smaller size, I did not like the taste, mine were bitter I also grow muncher each year, this year they have not produced for me and Tender Green did not produce many. All in all I am very pleased with the cucmbers, they were great with my early tomatoes, I have a second round coming soon. Below is sweet success cucumbers |
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