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I love dill pickles. My husband loves dill pickles. My son loves dill pickles. Naturally I was quite excited by the prospect of making my own. Since I had never planted a large garden before I had never before grown my own cucumbers. As I was preparing for the garden of 2010, drawing out my plans, all I really had to go by was the number of seeds per package and the space I had allotted for each vegetable. I decided to start with ten pickling cucumber vines and maybe twenty slicing cucumber plants. I thought that should be adequate for one family.

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