Quick Pickled Cucumber (How to Pickle Cucumbers) | The Mediterranean Dish

When to harvest cucumbers for the best flavor: This year’s cucumbers showed the importance of timing your cucumber harvest. These slicing cucumbers looked like they could handle 8 inches, but the sweet spot was actually 6 inches and under. When you wait too long, seeds get large and the flesh becomes watery. The cucumber loses that crisp, fresh taste you’re growing for. What worked for us was checking plants every day to every third day during peak season. Frequent harvesting keeps the plants pr