Description
This variety holds its quality longer than most and is a top-notch selection for pickling when harvested young.
When planting your pickling cucumber seeds outdoors, sow them in an area that receives full sun.
In smaller gardens, planting this pickling cucumber variety along a fence or trellis is the way to go! You can prepare flavorful and crunchy pickles with no bitterness every time. Plus, our National Pickling Cucumber is easy to grow and tolerant of disease and environmental conditions.
- Characteristics: Attracts bees
- Color: Green
- Fill Weight (grams): 1.4 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 46 - 56
- Flavor: Crisp and tasty.
- Preparation Ideas: This cucumber is an ideal pickling variety.
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Type: Vining
- Tolerance: Heat
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer|Fall
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer|Fall
- Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sowing Info
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
- Planting Depth: 0.5"
- Seed Spacing: Sow National Pickling Cucumber Seeds roughly 4' apart in rows, keeping rows approximately 6' apart.
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.
Description
This variety holds its quality longer than most and is a top-notch selection for pickling when harvested young.
When planting your pickling cucumber seeds outdoors, sow them in an area that receives full sun.
In smaller gardens, planting this pickling cucumber variety along a fence or trellis is the way to go! You can prepare flavorful and crunchy pickles with no bitterness every time. Plus, our National Pickling Cucumber is easy to grow and tolerant of disease and environmental conditions.
- Characteristics: Attracts bees
- Color: Green
- Fill Weight (grams): 1.4 g
- Approximate Seed Count: 46 - 56
- Flavor: Crisp and tasty.
- Preparation Ideas: This cucumber is an ideal pickling variety.
- Plant Type: Vegetable
- Plant Lifecycle: Annual
- Landscape Use: Edible Garden
- Growth Type: Vining
- Tolerance: Heat
- Growing Season(s): Spring|Summer|Fall
- Harvest/Bloom Season(s): Summer|Fall
- Package Dimensions: 3.25 x 4.5"
Sowing Info
Sow a few seeds evenly spaced in hills, 8 inches high and 12 inches across. Young vines should have a fence, trellis, or heavy cord on which to climb. When young vines are about 8 inches, thin to 3 plants per hill. Does not transplant well.
- Planting Depth: 0.5"
- Seed Spacing: Sow National Pickling Cucumber Seeds roughly 4' apart in rows, keeping rows approximately 6' apart.
- Nutrient Care Instructions: Apply SUPERthrive once per week. Soak in solution of 1/4 tsp per gal for 15 min. or longer depending on size and type.