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| Salt and Pepper Cucumbers |
Several years ago, I went to a local garden store in May looking for cucumber starts. The store had two shelves full of cucumber plants, one shelf labeled “slicing” and the other labeled “pickling.” I wanted to grow cucumbers for salad, so I grabbed some plants from the slicing shelf and bought them.
When I got home, I looked at the plant tags more closely and discovered they were pickling cucumbers, a white-skinned variety called “Salt and Pepper.” Aaaaargh! Why were pickling cucumbers on the slicing shelf?
