The best varieties of cucumbers for pickling and canning

Cucumbers are grown outdoors or in greenhouse (greenhouse). All varieties are subdivided into early, mid-season and late. If we are talking about use, then 3 types can also be distinguished:

• Salad.
• Suitable for harvesting for the winter.
• Universal.

Seedlings of salad cucumbers are usually planted early and indoors. For pickling and canning, it is advisable to grow cucumbers in the open field and collect when they reach medium size.

All varieties of pickling cucumbers have thin skin and firm, firm pulp. Most often, they have black pimples.

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The best cucumber seeds for pickling

The qualities of cucumber seeds last up to 6-8 years. If you use your seeds, then you must take into account that they have the best germination in the second or third year. To make sure that the seeds are viable, it is advisable to check this:

You need to buy seeds in advance. Most often they are prepared for sowing, that is, no additional processing is required. The market offers such a volume of seeds for this crop that the choice can pose a serious problem. When buying, it is advisable to carefully read the text on the packaging to find out what they are for. It is also important to know the differences between the variety and the hybrid (marked as F1 or F2). The variety has been developed for many years and is stable, the hybrid is intended for one year. This means that it is impossible to determine what will grow from the seeds collected from the hybrid.

It is best to buy seeds in a specialized store. If cucumbers are to be grown for pickling outdoors, it is important that the seeds are zoned (intended for a specific region), resistant to cold air, low humidity, wind, and temperature changes. Such quality as shade tolerance is also considered beneficial.

Externally, cucumber seeds should be "full" and not stick to the surface of lightly salted water.

Experienced gardeners have long paid attention to varieties that are called bundles. They form many ovaries, the fruits are small, tasty and suitable for canning.

Cucumbers for pickling and canning

Classical for pickling and canning are considered varieties such as:

• "Elegant";
• "Nezhinsky";
• Muromsky;
• Movir;
• "Cascade";
• "Spring";
• "Great";
• "Competitor";
• Erofei.

"Competitor" refers to early varieties, the fruits grow up to 12 cm. "Erofei" is a universal variety with a mixed type of flowering, fruits are small (6-7 cm), lumpy.

Experienced gardeners consider "Nezhinsky" to be the best variety. It is resistant to diseases and not picky about care, pollinated by insects.

Other varieties of the Nezhin "dynasty" are distinguished by the same qualities:

• "Nezhinka";
• "Era";
• "Stage";
• "Nosovsky".

In appearance, cucumbers of any of these varieties have all the qualities of "pickling": medium size, thin skin and fairly dense pulp, that is, pickling varieties of cucumbers look like in the photo below:

Pickled and salted, these cucumbers are strong and crunchy. An additional advantage is the ability to obtain quality seeds.

Self-pollinated varieties of cucumbers for open ground for pickling: "Zozulya", "Zador", "Orpheus", "Alliance". Lovers of very small canned cucumbers can grow "Parisian gherkin" or "Lilliputian".They are very fruitful, with excellent taste.

For those whose area is little illuminated by the sun, the best varieties of cucumbers for pickling can be: "Muromsky 36" or hybrids "Secret Firm F1" and "Moscow evenings F1".

"Muromsky 36" - small light green cucumbers (length 6-8 cm), resistant to short-term drop in air temperature.

"Secret Firm F1" and "Moscow Nights F1" are universal varieties with medium-sized fruits.

How to grow cucumbers for pickling and canning at home?

Those without a vegetable garden can grow cucumbers on the loggia or balcony provided that the variety is selected correctly. Cucumbers should be self-pollinating, vigorous and with small fruits. Cucumbers of the gherkin type correspond to these qualities.
You need to sow cucumbers for the balcony in February. For salting and canning, "Balconny" and "City Cucumber" are suitable. Their lashes are quite compact, and the fruits grow from the sinuses in bunches. These varieties are distinguished by their small fruit size, excellent taste and aroma, suitable for laying in jars for the winter.

Seedling grown at home. After planting on the balcony, each plant is tied to a wire located at a height of 1.5-1.7 m above the box. From time to time you need to remove the antennae and loosen the soil. Water the cucumbers on the balcony 2 or 3 times a week with water at room temperature. It is advisable to spray the stems in the same way. When the cucumbers grow to the wire, pinch the tops.

Two varieties are suitable for growing on a windowsill: "Russian" and "Rytova", whose whips grow up to 2 meters.

You can sow them in February, April, August and October. There are 2 methods of sowing: for seedlings and immediately on a permanent place. If seedlings are grown, then the cucumbers are transplanted to a permanent place only after 3 or 4 real leaves have appeared.

The soil must be fertile: 4 buckets of garden soil, ¼ buckets of compost, half a liter each ash and coarse sand. Water the cucumbers with warm water, the temperature in the room should not be lower than 25^aboutHappy and 17^aboutWith the night.

Regardless of the planting method, each plant is pinched over the fifth true leaf. After about 20 days, 2 lashes begin to grow from the bosom at once, which need to be tied up or sent to a "ladder" made of wood or metal.

The second time the stems are pinched, when 4-5 true leaves have grown on them. Lashes will grow from the sinuses again. First, barren flowers (male flowers) will appear, then - with ovaries (female). Pollination is carried out manually - a male flower is applied to a female one. Cucumbers begin to develop immediately after pollination. With proper care, up to forty fruits can be removed from one plant.

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