Tag: Cucumber

Burpless cucumbers are ready to be harvested around 50-70 days after sowing. You may choose to harvest the cukes when they reach 10 inches long (for slicing) or 3-4 inches long (for fresh pickling), depending on the variety and growing conditions. How do I know when my burpless cucumbers are ready to pick? Burpless cucumbers […]

What is this? In any case, burpless cucumbers have lovely thin skins, so they do not require peeling, and they taste delicious. This makes them a great addition to the home vegetable garden. Why we should not eat cucumber at night? It contains an ingredient called cucurbitacin, which is a powerful ingredient, known to cause […]

A good level of homemade manure in the border should provide trace element requirements to feed Cucumbers. A mix of seed meal, lime, bone meal, and kelp meal. All materials are derived from nature and are available in most garden centers. Homemade fertilizer will not burn Cucumber plants. How do you fertilize cucumbers organically? Cucumbers […]

Wash the right way or it’s worthless The Food and Drug Administration recommends you wash all produce under cold, running water for one to two minutes just before you intend to eat it. And before you rinse your food, go ahead and wash your hands with soap and water, too. Do cucumbers need to be […]

No, cucumber, ginger, lemon and water mix won’t make your tummy flat. A mixture of cucumber, ginger, lemon and water will give you a “flat tummy in a few days”, claims a message posted on Facebook. What happens when you drink cucumber and ginger juice? It promotes healthy skin, good digestion, and boosts energy levels. […]

Management Purchase virus-free plants. Maintain strict aphid control. Remove all weeds since these may harbor both CMV and aphids. Immediately set aside plants with the above symptoms and obtain a diagnosis. Discard virus infected plants. Disinfest tools used for vegetative propagation frequently. How can we prevent mosaic virus? How to Prevent Mosaic Viruses Plant virus-resistant […]

Grow ‘County Fair’, a cucumber cultivar with genetic resistance to bacterial wilt. What is the most disease resistant cucumber? Cucumbers are another crop for which varieties with a wide range of disease resistance is available. The varieties ‘Dasher II’, ‘Indy’, and ‘Thunder’, for example, all have resistance to several common diseases of cucumbers, including angular […]

Cucumber mosaic virus is one of the most recurrent viruses infecting pepper in South Korea (Choi et al., 2005). The Chinese C. annuum variety “Likeumjo” is resistant to CMV-P0 (Kang et al., 2010) and is a rare CMV resistance source controlled by a single dominant gene, Cucumber mosaic resistant 1 (Cmr1). What is the most […]

Saltwater Brining Salt is also used in making fermented pickles; it controls fermentation by stopping spoilage. Soaking in a saltwater brine allows the correct bacteria to ferment and break apart the sugars in cucumbers to create lactic acid. The salt prevents decomposition caused by enzymes present on cucumbers. Do you salt your cucumbers before pickling? […]

Cultivated cucumbers all contain cucurbitacin B and cucurbitacin C, compounds that are supposed to make their leaves bitter and less tasty to munching animals. Why are my pickling cucumbers bitter? Answer: The bitterness in cucumbers is produced by the compound cucurbitacin. Cucurbitacins are normally found in the leaves, stems, and roots of cucumber plants. The […]

Pickling cucumbers are a short, blocky fruit with firm flesh. Most varieties make crispy, firm dill pickles when picked at approximately four inches in length (Figure 1). Are pickling cucumbers just small cucumbers? Some may be large and sliced lengthwise or in rounds and some are small and pickled whole. Pretty much any type of […]

Your cucumbers should have a nice light or green color when they’re ready for harvest. They should be firm to the touch, but not hard or mushy. Pickling cucumbers will be ready when they are at least 2 inches long. What color are pickling cucumbers? dark greenPickler varieties aren’t uniformly dark green like the slicing-type […]

Kirby (or Pickling) Cucumbers: Short, oftentimes bumpy, these vary in color from yellow to dark green. They are good to eat raw, but they’re especially ideal for pickling. Persian Cucumbers: Similar to English Cucumbers, these are mild in taste. Sometimes bumpy, and with thin skins, they are ideal for eating raw. Can you eat a […]

Pickling cucumbers are short with graduating hues of dark green at the stem to light green at the blossom end. How do you tell a pickling cucumber from a regular cucumber? Pickling cucumbers are shorter and bigger around than slicing cucumbers. They are bred to have thinner skins and black spines so the pickled product […]

Picklers tend to be shorter and thicker than slicers. They may have bumpy or spotted skin. Their color, prior to pickling, can vary from yellow to pale or dark green. Gherkins, also known as cornichons or baby dills, are one of the best-known varieties of pickling cucumbers. How do I know what type of cucumber […]

Pickling cucumbers typically have thinner skins than the salad type, allowing for the vinegar, brine, or other pickling solution to better penetrate the skin and flavor the meat. They are short and squat, instead of long and lean. What is the difference between a regular cucumber and a pickling cucumber? Pickling cucumbers are shorter and […]

Super-tasters. Bitter cucumbers will taste a lot stronger if you’re a super-taster. Super-tasters have about twice as many taste buds as the average person (about 25% of people are super-tasters). This makes food more intense and sometimes unpalatable, from the bitterness of coffee to the spiciness of hot sauces. What happens if you eat bitter […]

Whether you made your cucumber salad with vinegar, mayo, or yogurt, this may happen. If making a creamy cucumber salad, you may add a bit more yogurt or sour cream to thicken it up a bit. How do I make my cucumber salad less watery? To remove the water from the cucumber without greatly affecting […]

Salt the slices first. No matter the salad recipe you’re making, salt the cut-up cucumber beforehand. The extra step allows them to release some of their water — keeping them extra crisp even when they get tossed with the dressing. How do you make hard cucumbers soft? To make cucumbers extra crunchy and fresh tasting […]

The cucumber you refer to as “regular” is the most common field-grown variety. Known as a slicing cucumber, it ranges in size from 6 to 9 inches, and its dark-green skin is usually waxed to prevent moisture loss. What is the most common cucumber? Garden cucumbers are the most common cucumbers in North America. They […]