Cucumbers: I Wish Someone Had Told Me This When I First Started - Pickling vs. Slicer
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- Опубликовано: 13 май 2022
- There's a big difference between cucumbers you grow for pickles and cucumbers you grow for eating fresh... In this video I explain the difference and also which one is right for you.
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Thanks! Great topic to cover! My tip for crunchy crisp pickles is to add grape leaf or oak leaf to the crock, bucket, or jar as you are fermenting or pickling your cukes. The tannins on the oak or grape leaf make crisp pickles. We also include an oak leaf in each jar of hot pickled beans, a family favorite.
thats a great tip thank you!!.... do you use a fresh or dried oak leaf??... I use bay leaves and I'd imagine they do something similar...
@@gardenlikeaviking we use fresh oak leaf. We also pick and freeze some fresh oak leaf to use if we make any batches after the leaves are past their best green stage. There are oak trees between the house and garden so it just makes sense to use what is close at hand. They look pretty at the bottom of the jar as well. We have wild grape vine too but it is a bit more of a hike to get to it.
What kind of oak leaf
@@deadtreebark I just pick leaves off the oak tree by our garden. The variety is Burr Oak. We use one green oak leaf in each jar of pickles or pickled beans. We use about 10 leaves per 5 gallon crock for fermented pickles or vegetables.
I've done the grape leaves and plan to do so this year, I'd never heard of oak but it makes sense.
Thanks for the tips! I’m hoping to grow some slicing cucumbers. Have a fantastic day. ☀️🌱
* Thank you , you have a wonderful day !
I’ll back you up on the fermented pickles you make! They are out of this world! 🥒
I had no idea either! Good info.
Good information
I love NATIONAL PICKLING CUCUMBERS ! I live in Cle and they do great ! I feed them with Every 2 weeks with miracle Grow 15-30-15 and I have blooms galore, thus cucumbers ! 🤣
I tried a Persian variety cucumber last year called Beit Alpha. Very productive. Thin flesh great for pickling and fresh eating. What made me try it was that all the flowers are female. So every flower turns into a cucumber. The trick with pickling is getting it crisp. Put 2 or 3 bay leafs in the jar. The tanin in the leaves keep the skin from going soft.
the Beit Alpha is a bush variety yes?... I may try that next year thank you!
@@gardenlikeaviking it climbs
Awesome information ! Me and my wife the first time we made pickles we used slicers and they were mushy . Never really tried making anymore after that . We would just make refrigerator pickles after that . Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend !
yes it was very disheartening and I almost didn't do it again until I found the lactose-fermentation methods!!...
Thanks for sharing my friend watching from Saudi Arabia new friend
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Silver Slicer is the one I grow. If I want to make pickles, I let the cucumber mature longer so that it becomes more crunchy. Silver Slicer doesn't get as bitter as some cucumbers do when they grow a rind.
Good grief - I never knew this about cucumbers. I'm getting the Chicago. Thanks !
I am looking forward to your lactose fermented pickle video. I hope to see it soon.
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Thanks so much for the link to the video. You are awesome!
Thanks that's exactly what would've happened to me, the neighbour's already think the cheese has slipped off my cracker, then they still think they're living in a deadly pandemic lol.
haha I feel you man I still see people everyday driving around with masks on in their own car by themselves!!!
@@gardenlikeaviking they're staying safe and protecting others, they'll be gone soon and we can all get on with growing stuff, turn this earth into a big massive garden where the sun shines and the skies are deep blue.
Lol! Sounds like a friend and I trying to make pumpkin pie with a regular pumpkin. Love cucs. Nice cucumber
Sandwhich.
Wo! Regular pumpkins don't make good pumpkin pies? I'll research it, but can you tell me now what the difference is? (Good timing, I was about to buy seeds!)
@@B30pt87 Well, the stuff we made was from a regular old pumpkin you buy at Halloween. It was stringy . Many years ago. I recall it was terrible. Pretty sure there are pumpkins special for baking pies. Just search pumpkins for pie. There are different varieties.
@@stompthedragon4010 I remember carving pumpkins for Halloween when I was a kid. The only thing I remember about them is that they were bigger than the ones my grandmother made pies out of. Maybe that was the only difference? I know they both came out of the same area of the garden- but it could be that they were two different varieties. I will look it up, thanks.
Omg 😱 I think I planted pickling cucumber 🥒 need to get slicers cucumbers. Thank you for my salads …
try to get the kind called "Marketmore" those are delicious
Straight 8 heirlooms were my family’s go to. Didn’t do much pickling so growing smaller ones wasn’t taken on. We’d just maybe take some small 8’s if we did.
Lebanese cucumbers are fantastic to pickle.
I've got both slicers and picklers going in now. Also trying a Korean cucumber my acupuncturist recommended. How about you talk about growing dill. I just put some in yesterday. Hope it takes, but have always had trouble getting it going. Looking forward to more lacto ferments too. I think I'll go stick some more glory of einkuizen in
dill likes nice and even moisture especially when its sprouting if it dries out one time it's pretty much gone... thank you for the video idea and yes now's the time to plant the einkuizen!
Pickling cukes are fine for slicing if small . I don't have room for both .
Hi, just catching up on your videos. Marketmore are ok but you really should try China Jade from Baker Creek. Best I've ever had.
thanks for the suggestion!!... is that a slicer type that you've had great experience with??
@@gardenlikeaviking Yes, a great Chinese slicer. Weird, I've responded twice and now can't find them. These are prolific and delicious. I grew about 4 plants vertically at the end of my onion bed and had tons to share. My friends loved them. I've grown cukes for years and these are the best I've ever tasted.
I planted slicers and they are doing fine. But the vine borers have gotten to my pickling cukes. It's the first time I've grown pickling cucumbers. The slicers are fine every year. I spent a good part of this afternoon injecting BT into the cukes and winter squash and pumpkins. Man, I hate those things. It's a battle every spring with the borers. I hope you don't have them where you live.
oh man I know how disheartening that can be!!... thats one reason I try to plant cucurbits as late as possible like the first week of June... there seems to be less pressure than when I plant them earlier... also I have a number of different homemade potions that seem to help a lot
Hello! I started growing strawberries in a pot on my balcony as a test plant, but so far I've had so many problems, I'm really discouraged. There've been bugs on the plant, and the soil had a white layer on top, one strawberry looked like a bug had chewed it, one is brown, and one has turned black before even growing. :'( I'm really lost what I should be doing.
strawberries can be difficult for a beginner sometimes... I'd suggest starting with something very easy to grow like tomatoes or salad greens to begin with...
Oh no! Mushy pickles 😬
My grandma done taught me all this and she would want me to marry you lol
lol she would love it when I talk about canning
@@gardenlikeaviking absolutely!
I thinking pickling cuks taste bettter hate slicers
What about the Armenian cucumber? Is it really a cucumber? They get so big!
Button ur shirt that looks tacky and inkept. Otherwise a good vid.
lol... most of the time I don't even have a shirt on but thank you
Do you tincture anything? I ask because i have these medicinal blueberries 🫐 that are unbelievable cant get past 5 of them without running to the toilet. Would love to capture the freash potant medicine for the winter time. Its pretty easy i assume just through some in everclear.
whoa what blueberries are these??!!... I would love to experience that medicine!... yes I will be making a few tincture videos when the time is right... thank you
@@gardenlikeaviking its a ever bearings so its been genetically alrtered. Cant remember the name busshel and berry big pot it was in.