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This is a cucumber plant, just before the flowers are getting ready to bloom, and about a month before any cucumbers will appear. The tendrils are so interesting.
Two Indian Cucumber (Medeola virginiana) plants - nice examples for whorled phyllotaxy. They get their name from having been used as food by Native Americans. Their crisp rhizomes are edible and taste indeed like cucumbers and can be used in similar ways. They're flowering all over the forest floor right now. While they are abundant here in the Appalachians, they are considered endangered in Florida and Illinois.
I have a bunch of old slides around. every once in a while I try something new like melting and freezing to see what it does to the film emulsion. This was a fun one.
Crunch, cool, spicy cucumber salad that is perfect to accompany any Korean grilled meats.
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Our one cucumber vine produced well over 100 cucumbers this summer. I was still picking them yesterday.
It is midday and the sun shines right above head.At noon,none ventures out in the oppressive heat of summer.But this brave woman,with a basket full of cucumber, walks from street to street shouting,"Vellarikkai" . We feel happy at her arrival and buy cucumbers from her.
The cucumbers are a boon in summer. They quench our thirst.
Look how much bigger than last week! Oh my gosh that was quick. This little one is probably going to be my first actual vegetable harvest - it's a pickling variety of cucumber so won't get huge. NOM.
Cucumber 'Poona Kheera', early August. An unusual cucumber from India that starts off white then turns from golden-yellow to russet brown.