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Cucumbers

Fresh and delicious, cucumbers can be enjoyed on their own,
in salads and even cooked! Full of fibre, they are the darlings
of our vegetable gardens. Cucumbers are a climbing plant.

Straight Eight You can let it run on the ground or climb on a support or trellis.

Garden companions:
Some varieties to try tomatoes, spinach, basil,

▪ For a good all-around slicing cucumber: cabbages, marigold, thyme
Marketmore 76, Tourne-Sol Field cucumber,
Straight Eight, Burpee Hybrid II, Bristol

▪ An awesome burpless slicer:
Sweet Burpless Hybrid, Telegraph
▪ For a small garden or to grow in a pot:
Spacemaster, Burpless Bush, Bush Champion, Peticue
▪ For a Japanese-style cucumber:
Suyo Long, Burpless No 26, Sweet Success

▪ For delicious homemade pickles:
Homemade Pickle, Mathilde, Pickalot Hybrid, Arabian Telegraph

Field cucumber Burpless Bush Spacemaster Homemade Pickle

Tip: Fact:

Tall, trellised cucumber vines will shade other crops, Cucumbers contain an as-yet
so plant them along the north side of your garden, unidentified compound that
since the sun is usually coming from the south. a percentage of folks find makes them
“gassy.” “Burpless” cucumbers cause
less burping among taste-testers.
Marketmore 76 Tourne-sol

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