Cucumber Pickling

Yes, that's right, pickles are made from these tasty little cucumbers! Fast-growing & prolific in production, pickling cucumbers are short 4-6" long fruit with robust skin, spiny ridges, and beefy interior flesh. Making pickles is easy - use cider vinegar & salt as brine then mix in spice: garlic, celery seed, mustard seed, & peppercorns are popular. Dill seed added to the mix produces dill pickles. Create your own recipe!

Seeding Instructions - Start indoors in March and transplant into the sunny garden or outdoor containers after the last frost in May, can take up to 10 days to germinate. Soil should be enriched with peat, compost, and worm castings if possible.

Growing On & Harvest - Keep cucumbers evenly moist. Requires staking. Fertilize with veggie food that contains calcium every 2 wk & bone meal 1 x month. Harvest 50-60 days.