It doesn't matter which way Carlos Castro tips his 40-bushel bin, 2,000 pounds of cucumbers are going to get a bath. Pouring that ton of pickling cucumbers into a washing basin is the first order of business at the massive grader at Sanoca Farms on New Hope Church Road in Wilson County.
"We are a Mt. Olive grading station," said David Harrell of Sanoca Farms. "Mt. Olive is still our one and only customer and 100% of what we grade here goes to become a pickle eventually at Mt. Olive Pickle Company." The season is just over halfway done.
"We grow what is called pickling cucumbers. They are different than what you see in your grocery store. They are going to be shorter and fatter in general so that they fit into a jar rather than what we would call a long green (cucumber) that you would buy in the grocery store in the produce section," Harrell said.
"The season has been good so far. Overall, we have had an above average season," Harrell said. "We have had some ups and downs along the way. We got a little rain early on, and then it got blazing hot after that, and now it has gotten a little cool, which has been good for us humans, but it kind of slows down the growth on a cucumber plant."
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