I'v seen it mentioned in several recipes but I've never heard of it or seen that variety listed in any seed catalog.
what is a "Kirby" cucumber?
Apparently the food service people used niche categories . American , English, Japanese, Armenian, Kirby. Don't ask me how the name got started , but it is apparently what most of us call a pickling type cucumber.
http://www.cheneybrothers.com/cucumber.shtm
Thanks Dill. It's what I would call a pickling cucumber.
Haven't heard the term in years...but that's what I'd call one too.
Question--- What's a good variety of burpless / English type cucumber
like we get shrink-wrapped in plastic in the supermarket?? Any recommendations?? Love'em with onions in a vinegar & sugar solution.
LarryD
Larry-I'm growing Chelsea Prize. Got the seeds from:
https://www.reneesgarden.com/seeds/seeds-hm/vegCh.htm#cuc
They're really good cukes. Crisp and much better home grown than what you get at the market.
It would probably cost as much for a packet of seeds as to buy one cuke!
I have had really good luck with Amira cukes from Johnny's Selected seeds. It is listed as a middle eastern cucumber and grows long and has a wonderful mild flavor and very prolific.
jenhill & roseone....... THANKS!!! to both!! Have not grown these before but WILL next year. I have Poona Kheera growing now....
LarryD
I just peel my picklers...don't plant the other type...I think the picklers taste 'cukier'.
edited to correct grammar...
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melody... interesting information. Will give it a try.....
"County Fair" does real well here for me where downy mildew is prevalent.
Thanks,
LD
I plant National Pickling, Snow's Fancy Pickler, Straight 8's...love em peeled sliced with onions in vinegar...also like what we call in the South..'Thunder & Lightnin'...chopped cukes, onions, tomatoes, bell pepper...and hot pepper, in vinegar with salt and pepper..(let stand in fridge for several days for flavor to develop
melody.... never mentioned it but I also put very small tender yellow squash and serrano chilis in mine too.
LD
Yeah, whatever's handy goes in mine...just makes it better.
Thanks goodness!!!!! I HOPE it can STILL be called ""Thunder & Light'nin"". LOVE that name!!!!!!!!!!! SO...down home......
Kinda like th' "cathead" biscuits grandma "usta" make when I waz a kid......... really graphic and to the point!! NO pretense.... My Uncles he ""put them to sleep"" , as they called it, by slippin' a nub of home-churned butter between th' fluffy layers.... oh....the memories...... Then, after breakfast, they'd all go to th' field to work in their bib-overalls....
LarryD