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I picked another 90 salad cucumbers this morning bringing the total to over 200 from 4 hills. and they are still producing. A search of the internet says salad cukes don't make good pickles but I don't see why sliced discs wouldn't work for Bread & Butter Pickles? The variety is Diva that we started from seed…

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259 posted on 09/16/2013 8:35:05 PM PDT by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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A search of the internet says salad cukes don't make good pickles but I don't see why sliced discs wouldn't work for Bread & Butter Pickles?

Try it and see. I've used all kinds of things in place of pickling cucumbers in pickle recipes. (Salad cukes, zuchinni, summer squash, very underripe winter squash, etc)
283 posted on 09/17/2013 10:35:50 PM PDT by Ellendra ("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
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