Favorite pickling cucumber
 

For those of you that make pickles, which variety do you prefer?

I know I've said this before here somewhere but I love Snow's Fancy Pickling, both for pickles and for salads. Very crunchy and the plants are cuke machines! My other two favorites would have to be National Pickling and Chicago Pickling. Snow's is actually a selection of Chicago Pickling.

Another vote for National...

If you want to try one that doesn't take up much space then try Bush Pickle F1. I like it very well. It keeps on keeping on. Do a Google on it.

I can recommend about 10 former Soviet (Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian etc.) exceptional pickling cukes if you are interested ;) Just need to find out your growing conditions and amount of space you have for cukes...

I grew County Fair this year, and they were the best pickling cuke I have grown so far - disease resistant and really productive.

The variety "Homemade Pickles" is very good for--homemade pickles. I use them fresh for slicers (even though they are a canning cuke) and my DH makes dill pickles from them.

I've been using Diva, picking them small. The have no seeds early on, and very few later when picked at 4".

Very nice pickles from a variety that is advertised as skinless, seedless, and burpless.