James Mayer said:

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If the cucumbers have littles holes in them surrounded by frass, you have
encountered the dreaded pickleworm, which over winters in Texas and Florida,

I live in Florida. I guess that I'm stuck with them all year.


I suppose you could grow parthenocarpic cukes (don't need pollination) under
screens or row covers -- if you were sure there were no pickleworm pupae to
hatch out under your covers.

'Cool breeze' is suitable for pickling

https://www.territorial-seed.com/tes...ers/CU295.html

'Sweet success' is a nice slicer

http://www.seminisgarden.com/popular/sweetsuccess.html

There are other parthenocarpic varieties.

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Pat in Plymouth MI

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