Bushy did well early but when the weather turned hot it wilted ( Read more... )

So I ended up making three batches of Cinnamon Pickles. The third one I think I only posted on Facebook, not on here. It was on August 13 and made 15 pints ( Read more... )

So the second batch of Cinnamon Pickles is done. And it is a big batch - 12 pints and 5 half pints! I knew there were more this time. Last Sunday when I cut the cucumber sticks, I didn't have enough, so went out and picked more cukes and cut them. I should have stopped with one less than I did. The big colander wouldn't hold them all; I had to ( Read more... )

I just finished the first batch of Cinnamon Pickles.
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This is what I picked today.
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I picked again today and have enough now to make a batch of Cinnamon Pickles.

For my record of how each variety bears:

I picked one more from Bushy.

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I picked 2 more today from Bushy - both about the same size as before, maybe 5 inches long but nicely chubby.

There are a couple on Early Fortune that I could pick but I'm going to give them another day or two.

There are also some on Marketmore. They are longer than the ones I've picked so far, but they are slim. I hope they get fatter.

After not finding any varieties of cucumber plants for sale at the C-Street market that were supposed to get big and fat, which is what I need for cutting sticks to make cinnamon pickles, I went to Schaffitzel's. I have found them to have a wide selection of varieties of tomatoes and peppers, so I thought they might on cucumbers as well ( Read more... )

Variety 2. Bushy, 3 inch pot, one pot with 2 or 3 plants. Also bought from William. It was the last pot of this variety he had. It didn't have blooms yet when bought. It had grown better than Early Fortune. The plant is much taller, the leaves bigger. I saw 2 cuke about 3 or so inches long on it the other day, plus lots of little ones. Tonight I ( Read more... )

Tonight I picked the first cucumber ( Read more... )