I have picked my first two outside gherkins and they tasted great,i hadnot ever tasted fresh gherkins only pickled ones.The taste is in a way the same as a cucumber,slightly different.I dont know with variaty it is.The seeds came from a seedswap.When i am not wrong it is marketmore.
Marketmore is a regular 'slicing' cucumber, ruud, not a gherkin type. As I said before this type of cucumber is my preferred one to eat raw, forget about pickling them (well, almost)!
Hi john,about marketmore you were right.Mayby you know this one.Next to the gherkin is a similair plant growing only i noticed that the little gherkin/cucumber has little thorns on it.What is it and is it good to eat?
Cucumis meteliferus (Horny cucumber)? I grew it once but it didn't mature- that was the year after Mount Pinatubo blew up and even my watermelons didn't mature. Apparently they are excellent when grown properly but the one I bought once wasn't impressive.
Thanks john for the information,by the way one qld chap said to me that the first one i mentioned is a very old type of dutch cucumber is and i always thought it was a gherkin.