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Remember – from earlier this year, “I want to experiment and make homemade Pickles, what variety of cucumbers is best?”

Part I - The pickling varieties are: Calypso, Carolina, Fancypak, Multipik, and National Pickling. Cucumbers grown for pickling are 3 to 4 inches long and up to 1 inch in diameter at maturity. Pickling cucumbers traditionally have a bumpy skin & remain dark green. It is possible t…

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