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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    Tom July 30, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    I planted one cucumber plant and it is growing very nicely. I don’t know the variety that I selected. I purchased the plant from a small mom & pop garden center that has since closed for the season. I have it growing on a trellis in my small garden. The sun is on it for a good part of the day. The tentacles are reaching 6-7 feet high. It has produced only four cucs so far. The first one was sort of green and 14″ long and roughly 2-2 1/2″ diameter. After about four days it lost its greeness and became yellow. It tasted fine. The 2nd cuc mostly did the same and the 3rd and 4th cucs are mostly yellow and about 17″ long. They never did turn green. I didn’t pick them earlier because I thought they would eventually turn green but they just got longer. Is it the variety I planted or is it a victim of poor farming–this is the second year of trying to plant cucs–the first go-around wasn’t very successful.

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