Recommended Cucumber Varieties

Cucumbers are available in dozens of varieties. You can grow cucumbers for your salads, or for pickling. You can find cucumbers for large gardens, or dwarf vined cucumbers for smaller gardens and containers. Below, we’ve listed a few of our favorite cucumber varieties. Talk to your local extension agent or your local nursery for more information on cucumbers that will grow well in your area.

Slicing Cucumbers

  • Sweet Slice Burpless
  • Straight 8
  • Poinsett
  • Dasher II
  • Salad Bush Hybrid
  • Marketmore 80
  • Marketmore 76

    • Pickling Cucumbers

  • Boston Pickling
  • Miss Pickler Hybrid
  • County Fair Hybrid
  • Bush Pickle Hybrid
  • Eureka Hybrid

    • Cucumbers suitable for containers and planters:

  • Pickle Bush
  • Pot Luck
  • Bush Champion
  • Parks Bush Whopper
  • Salad Bush
  • Spacemaster
  • Bushmaster

    • Disease Resistant Cucumber Varieties

    Pickling

  • Liberty Hybrid
  • Saladin
  • County Fair
  • Ballerina
  • Pioneer
  • Wellington F1

    • Slicing

  • Dasher 11
  • Bush Crop
  • Cobra
  • Indio
  • Salad Bush
  • Sweet Slice
  • Sweet Success
  • Sweet Slice (burpless)
  • Burpee Hybrid
  • Slice Nice
  • Slice Master Hybrid

    • Exotic cucumber varieties:

  • Lemon
  • Armenian
  • Palace King Hybrid
  • Mongkut Hybrid
  • Sooyow Nishikir
  • White Wonder

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