I used to grow Straight 8's after one year of excellent production and taste. Several years after, just a few cukes and they were bitter.
I switched over to Marketmore and even better I planted North Carolina Pickling cukes and had 4 plants in each 3 gallon pot. I let em sprawl and had cukes everywhere. I been eating the pickler ones like regular cukes. Good flavor. Tastes like the big ones.
Only problem I had was so many vines and leaves even with pinching some of the vines back that I would some cukes and they would get big and fat and almost to yellow color, but were still yummy.
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