Cucumbers: varieties to grow

Fresh and delicious, cucumbers can be enjoyed on their own, in salads and even cooked! Full of fibre, they are the darlings of our vegetable gardens. Cucumbers are a climbing plant. You can let it run on the ground or climb on a support or trellis.
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Some varieties to try

For a good all-around slicing cucumber:

Marketmore 76
Tourne-Sol Field cucumber
Straight Eight
Burpee Hybrid II
Bristol

An awesome burpless slicer:

Sweet Burpless Hybrid
Telegraph

For a small garden or to grow in a pot:

Spacemaster,
Burpless Bush
Bush Champion
Peticue

For a Japanese-style cucumber:

Suyo Long
Burpless No 26
Sweet Success

For delicious homemade pickles:

Homemade Pickle
Mathilde
Pickalot Hybrid
Arabian

Planting Tip:

Tall, trellised cucumber vines will shade other crops, so plant them along the north side of your garden, since the sun is usually coming from the south.

Garden companions:

tomatoes, spinach, basil, cabbages, marigold, thyme

Fact:

Cucumbers contain an as-yet unidentified compound that a percentage of folks find makes them “gassy.” “Burpless” cucumbers cause less burping among taste-testers.