Pickling cucumbers: The one you have pictured is the size you want if you are going to eat it in a salad or to make sweet or sour pickles. It should be a bit bigger if you are going to make dill pickles unless you are going to make hamburger dills. Have you ever seen the big dill pickles in a bar or beer joint in those gallon jars. They are at least twice the size of that one. Yours still has the little tiny spines and is still a dark green color. When it loses those little bumps with the spines and turns a lighter green, that is the time to make either dill spears or whole dill pickles.
