Well my unknown variety of pickling cucumbers is pretty much done for due to powdery mildew and me removing diseased leaves. They are looking pitiful and producing very little fruit now. What fruit they are producing look strange and misshapen. I like eating the cukes rather than pickling them.
Anyway I want to plant a more disease resistance variety next year but don't have any idea of which variety to choose.
After searching the net I found a couple of tables which shows disease resistance for many varieties of cukes.
This table shows disease resistance varieties for [url=https://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/Tables/CucSlicersTable.html]slicers[/url] and this one for [url=https://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/Tables/CucPicklesTable.html]picklers[/url].
Anyone care to suggest a variety of pickling cucumbers to plant?
Thanks,
Scarecrow
.Anyone know if Eureka cucumbers are any good?
From the picklers link above they list is as the most disease resistance of all cukes.
I found this description on the net which has piqued my interest.
The Eureka hybrid cucumber is a dual purpose slicer/pickler that features disease resistance. Quite simply, because of its versatility it just might be the only cucumber a home gardener needs to plants.
Cucumbers are great for diets and healthy in other respects, too. They consist of about 90% water, but still are nourishing, containing both vitamins A and C as well as sulfur, manganese, phosphorus, silicon, sodium, calcium and potassium. One 5.3 ounce serving has only about 25 calories, so you can eat a lot of Eureka cucumbers and not gain a pound. The strong, vigorous plants set a load of uniform, firm, shite-spined, very dark green fruits.
The dark green peel makes it very appealiing when sliced for salads, or for the darkest green batch of pickles you've ever made!
This variety grows well on a fence or trellis for easy harvest, but growing it on the ground works well too. This is also a monoecious variety and it requires no other pollinator since the vines produce both male and female flowers. Maturity is 57 days from direct seeding.
This is a dark green salad cucumber from small sizes on up, and it's a marvelous pickling cucumber from 2-5 inches long. For best quality as a slicing variety, use the fruits from tiny sizes up to about 7 inches long. Eureka can grow through troubles in the garden and yield a huge crop over a long picking season. It is resistant to angular leaf spot, downy mildew, papaya ring spot, scab, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellows virus, Anthracnose races 1 and 2, cucumber mosaic virus and powdery mildew. now that's a lot of disease resistance and Eureka is unique in this respect.
From the picklers link above they list is as the most disease resistance of all cukes.
I found this description on the net which has piqued my interest.
The Eureka hybrid cucumber is a dual purpose slicer/pickler that features disease resistance. Quite simply, because of its versatility it just might be the only cucumber a home gardener needs to plants.
Cucumbers are great for diets and healthy in other respects, too. They consist of about 90% water, but still are nourishing, containing both vitamins A and C as well as sulfur, manganese, phosphorus, silicon, sodium, calcium and potassium. One 5.3 ounce serving has only about 25 calories, so you can eat a lot of Eureka cucumbers and not gain a pound. The strong, vigorous plants set a load of uniform, firm, shite-spined, very dark green fruits.
The dark green peel makes it very appealiing when sliced for salads, or for the darkest green batch of pickles you've ever made!
This variety grows well on a fence or trellis for easy harvest, but growing it on the ground works well too. This is also a monoecious variety and it requires no other pollinator since the vines produce both male and female flowers. Maturity is 57 days from direct seeding.
This is a dark green salad cucumber from small sizes on up, and it's a marvelous pickling cucumber from 2-5 inches long. For best quality as a slicing variety, use the fruits from tiny sizes up to about 7 inches long. Eureka can grow through troubles in the garden and yield a huge crop over a long picking season. It is resistant to angular leaf spot, downy mildew, papaya ring spot, scab, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellows virus, Anthracnose races 1 and 2, cucumber mosaic virus and powdery mildew. now that's a lot of disease resistance and Eureka is unique in this respect.
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Just to chime in...Lindsaylew82 wrote:Did anyone ever do grow outs for these?
I'm growing Marketmore 97 and McPick this year, and there's no question at al that McPick is outproducing Marketmore. My Marketmores are struggling a little bit. They get pretty much the same sun and water as the McPicks, but they're a little scrawny and just haven't taken off. The McPicks are absolutely killing it...which is nice since I prefer garlic dill pickles to fresh cucumbers. I have three plants of each - I've harvested one Marketmore and ten McPicks.