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Originally posted by Jjherts View PostI prefer growing gherkins to cucumbers.... Smaller less waste...
They can be used raw just like cucumbers... Taste same
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Thanks for your recipe, I will most definitely try this (providing my cucumbers produce....!!!)~~~ Gardening is medicine that does not need
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I prefer the gherkins.
They're faster and more tolerant than cucumbers and the smaller fruit go (raw) into packed lunches...my kids eat them like apples. I find they taste the same but are less watery and more crunchy.
I usually grow the gherkins in my greenhouse/garden where I can pick daily and the cucmbers up the allotment where there is more space.
We have recently had a lot of Russian, Lithuanian and Polish people get allotments on our site and it seems they specialise in making pickles. I plan to grow extra this year to try the all the recipes and methods they keep telling me about.
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I tried growing Gherkins last year and only got three, so decided not to bother this year - especially since I'm a polytunnel down at the moment.
May well have another go next year.What do you get if you divide the circumference of a pumpkin by its diameter?
Pumpkin pi.
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Just sown some gherkin seeds - since there were so many votes in favour of them!
Couldn't decide which vareties so I used my usual selection technique - oldest first
Vert petit de Paris (sow by 2011)
Piccolo di Parigi (2012)
National Pickling (packed 2010)
Six seeds of each - wait and see time
PS I have a sinking feeling that the first 2 "Paris/Parigi" ones will be the same thingLast edited by veggiechicken; 05-06-2016, 11:31 AM.
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