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Looking for a green heirloom slicing cucumber ...

cziga
11 years ago

I've grown the burpless English slicing cucumbers for years and we really like them. Nice long fruit, very few seeds (we hate the varieties with tons of seeds and gel in the middle) and the skin is thin enough to eat without peeling sometimes.

I grow mostly heirloom vegetables, and would like to find a good heirloom slicing cucumber that is similar to the burpless english hybrid that we are used to. I am having trouble finding a list of varieties to browse through and choose from ... there are some funky looking lemon cucumbers, and other ones, but I think I'm looking for something fairly "normal" or standard to start with. I see "Straight Eight" as a possibility, or "Marketmore" (or "Marketmore 76", not sure what the difference is) ...

What are people's opinions on these two? Which do you like better? Which sounds more like what I am looking for? Do they get bitter? Do they have a lot of seeds, or a small seed cavity? Are there any other traditional green varieties that I should look into? (I'm looking for slicers, I already have heirloom pickling cucs). Thanks so much for any help!!

(I'm going to cross post this in the Vegetable Garden forum as well)

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