Hey everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin here. We're talking today

about different types of cucumbers that you can grow in small compact spaces.

So the first thing we will discuss

are the difference between pickling cucumbers

and slicing cucumbers.

Those are the kind of families,

and I'm not using that in the botanical sense.

Those are the two sort of groups and then you have two different styles within that bush or vining.

So pickling cucumbers, they're small.

They're better, of course, for making pickles. Slicing cucumbers are much

larger and you're typically going to slice them and eat them in salads or use them in all sorts of different things.

So again, pickling cucumbers. They are shorter and thicker than slicers, uniform in width and length, and their

color is going to be dark green at the stem end.

It kind of gets yellow or paleish green at the blossom end. The skin of the fruit is very thin with little to no wax and it's pretty bumpy. They kind of look like little warty looking things. And then as you get into the slicing cucumbers, they're six to nine inches long. They can be slightly bitter. You can reduce that by peeling them and or removing the seeds. Typically, they are dark green throughout. typically the skin is waxy and tough and it doesn't have any bumps on it

So if you're growing in containers you can grow either of them. It doesn't really matter

You're just gonna want to go for Bush-style cucumbers that perform really well.

Now I'm going to list a few and just go ahead and take some notes or perhaps re-listing to this sometime when you're at the nursery,

sweet success. That's the first one we're kicking it off with. It's hard to beat a name like

Sweet Success. Solid Bush, again, it's very similar to our tomato episode.

If you're looking for the word Bush or patio,

you know it's gonna do well.

So salad Bush, Bush, slicer, those ones do really well.

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