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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: rich27 on January 10, 2011, 20:58

Title: gherkins
Post by: rich27 on January 10, 2011, 20:58

ive only had my plot since august but have been growing different things in the garden and the greenhouse. i just wondered if anybody had grown gherkins and if they were easy to do so?

Title: Re: gherkins
Post by: DD. on January 10, 2011, 21:01

Very easy to grow, in fact you get inundated with them.

Strictly a gherkin is not a gherkin until it's pickled, you grow mini-cucumbers and pickle them.

Welcome to the fourms.

Title: Re: gherkins
Post by: ecky on January 11, 2011, 00:02

I always thought a gherkin was a continetal veg :happy:What variety of cucu is best?

Title: Re: gherkins
Post by: DD. on January 11, 2011, 05:21

See this re cucmbers not being a gherkin until it's pickled:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A593598

I grew these, tons of seed in a packet so you can share them.

http://seedsofitaly.co.uk/product/102