Cucumbers 2025 - some new

[pepperhead212]

Anyone starting any yet? I started 5 varieties this season, which is more than I usually do. My usual County Fair, due to it's resistance to bacterial wilt, but maybe I'll find another one. I also have the Wisconsin 58, which is fairly resistant (at least to the insects that spread the wilt), with the hairy stems and leaves, plus the Surround that I spray the new growth with weekly. The other three are Marketmore 76, The General, and King Japanese (one of these last two was a gift, though I don't remember which one! Usually, it would be a little later, but it has been warmer this year, and no cold snaps in May forecast. Two days ago, I set seeds for all these, plus 3 okra varieties, overnight, for 12 hours, and in the morning, all of the cukes had at least a hint of a sprout on at least one seed, when I set them to sprout on some dampened PT in some petri dishes, and by 5 pm almost every seed had sprouted! I planted all the Jiffy Pellets I had set up for them, so they should be up soon.

[karstopography]

Yes, picking cucumbers pretty much daily. A few weeks ago we got super strong and very unseasonably cool winds that burned up some of the lower leaves, but I eventually cut those damaged leaves away and the cucumbers have since recovered. They never completely stopped producing and the new leaves and growing tips didn’t suffer in the wind, but the tallest, most exposed plants took a beating on down the vines and had heavy damage to a majority of their fully grown leaves. Tasty Green and Garden Oasis were the most exposed and the most affected and lost the most foliage, but I just picked a nice Garden Oasis cucumber.

I have six plants total. Two Suyo Long, one garden Oasis, and one Tasty Green and those four all got started February 1st and transplanted about a month later. Two cucumbers I direct seeded around March 1st, poinsett 76 and China Jade. Poinsett and China Jade just recently started producing. I haven’t had the Poinsett yet, I gave that one cucumber it has produced so far to my mom. The rest are all very good, crunchy, sweet and definitely not bitter.

[AKgardener]

I get to start mine in a week .. gonna try English cucumbers and quick snacks

[Paulf]

Next week DW will put Diva and Green Light in the raised beds. This will be the fourth year for those two varieties. Very prolific, long seasoned and extremely tasty. I tried a long English variety last year to no avail. They were short, only a few and what was on the vines were pretty awful.