Summer – excellent time for preparations and salting cucumbers. Someone prefers fresh-salted cucumbers, someone marinated. There is set of ways of conservation and pickles of vegetables, but at all not all cucumbers approach for this purpose.
Pickles are excellent source of microelements. For salting vegetables in the first maturity are chosen, there are also special grades which are most optimum for preparations. They have thin peel without presence of bitterness and a few seeds. Pickling cucumbers can be distinguished from salad on external signs: on them there are small pimples of dark color which darkening happens because of availability in fruits of enzyme of flavonin. Through these thorns the cucumbers give excess moisture, after drying the fruits become crispy and fragile.
The size and form of cucumbers also has important value for preparations for the winter: fruits to three centimeters in length – gherkins, vegetables ten-fifteen centimeters long are good for salting with fennel.
Grade cucumbers "Loyal friends" have small fruits which are similar rather to gherkins. The grade ripens early, the crop can be reaped for the second month after seeding of seeds. On one knot grows to six krupnobugorchaty and chernoshipny cucumbers. They are good for salting and the fresh use. The following grade of cucumbers suitable for salting – "Nightingale". This species of cucumbers can brag of the precocity (up to forty five days) and lack of emptiness in zelenets. Fruits reach length of ten centimeters, have large and frequent hillocks and black thorns. The grade "Nightingale" by right is considered the most resistant to diseases and the most fruitful. "Семкросс" also treats early ripening varieties, is suitable for cultivation in any kind of soil. Harvesting happens already forty five days later after sowing. The sizes of fruits reach nine centimeters in length with availability of dark thorns. "Семкросс" it is unpretentious in leaving, needs waterings by warm water, loosening and weeding. Also favourites of gardeners are grades of cucumbers "Fontanel" and "Pickling" which perfectly are suitable for salting.