Homemade Pickles Cucumber

(Cucumis sativus) Grow your own pickles with this superior pickling cucumber.  Compact, space-saving plants produce bountiful harvests of firm, blocky cucumbers reaching up to 6” long at maturity.  For super crisp refrigerator pickles, harvest cukes around 3-4” in length, reserving the larger ones for use in refreshing cucumber salads.  55 days to harvest.  25 seeds per packet.

CULTURE: Direct sow seeds in spring after danger of frost has passed.  Seeds should be sown 3-5 per hill with hills spaced at least 3' in all directions.  After germination, thin to 3 plants per hill.  Alternatively, seeds may be sown along a trellis with 12-24" final spacing between plants.  Harvesting regularly promotes yield.