question for the garden gurus

BIG RUH

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Does any one know the name of the round yellow cucumbers/ I've looked in all my seed catalogs and no one shows anything. It would be helpfull if I have the correct name for them when I start google searching
 
Not to be negative but I tried those last year and was not pleased with the produce. First I bought mine off the rack at tractor supply store and the plants grew vigorously and produced abundantly, however; when picked at the right stage they were just ok in taste. Too soon with little taste, too late and strong with large seeds. No stage produced the nice lemon color just a ugly brown. All stages it was covered with fine hair like growth that was unsightly and had to be peeled to be eaten and on the larger fruit that hair like growth was almost thistle like. Not sure it is a true cucumber. I plan to stay with a good basic variety this year.
 
(quoted from post at 08:11:52 02/04/16) Not to be negative but I tried those last year and was not pleased with the produce. First I bought mine off the rack at tractor supply store and the plants grew vigorously and produced abundantly, however; when picked at the right stage they were just ok in taste. Too soon with little taste, too late and strong with large seeds. No stage produced the nice lemon color just a ugly brown. All stages it was covered with fine hair like growth that was unsightly and had to be peeled to be eaten and on the larger fruit that hair like growth was almost thistle like. Not sure it is a true cucumber. I plan to stay with a good basic variety this year.

You must have gotten some bad seed or had bad growing conditions. They have always been a top seller at our produce stand. We try to pic them when they are the size of a lemon and not very brown. The plants take awhile to mature, but when they do they put out cucumbers like crazy.
 
well, lets see your definition of a serious gardener and see if it a lines with my definition of "traditional farmer".
 
I found several packages of them at the local "non-serious-gardener-store" year before last, in the end of the season close-out rack. Produced like crazy, tasted just fine. Some of the vines were over 20' long and climbing in the wife's peonies. We ate them with onions in vinegar, and made several batches of bread and butter pickles out of them. I think they have a milder taste and like them. There's a few packs of them left that I'll plant in our "non-serious-garden" later. :D Mark
 

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