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UPDATE!
another rotund vegetable has appeared in the garden... I'm beginning to think these are less "cucumber melon" and more "melon cucumber" or maybe they're just "melon melon"

the mystery of how a melon seed appeared in the garden remains unsolved...

also, you can see from the photo how well organized my garden is with no plants overlapping or intertwining within and betwixt one another... not a chaotic jungle of vegetables at all...

#melon#cucumber#gardening

I have a cucumber plant that has spread across the garden but hasn't produced any fruit all summer... that is until it decided to grow this today... it is already the size of a softball and is showing no signs of slowing... I will keep you updated...

#cucumber#melon#gardening

This year's greatest success 🥰 and greatest failure 😭 .

I love the Japanese stripy cucumbers: their pretty scalloped edges, distinctive flavor, and crispness when turned into pickles. I've been trying to grow them since pre-COVID, and always got tons of flowers (usually male) and very little fruit. This year I finally nailed the right combination of high-potassium fertilizer and hand pollination, and had more cucumbers than in the past 5 years combined. And the best tsukemono I've ever made!

Alas, since the departure of our red-shouldered hawks the squirrel population has exploded, and they got these two young ones and the four female flowers that remained, killing the plant in the process.

#Gardening #Cucumber #Iowa

First time on the menu this year:
Armenian cucumber.

This plant is actually the same species as melons (Cucumis melo). It’s not a new-fangled invention; rather, it’s a traditional vegetable from the Middle East.

I first had them in southeastern #Spain (#Alicante), where it is a common vegetable and is called “alficoz” or “alpicoz.”

A new fruit finally appears!
Though I had the vine first growing in the greenhouse in winter, only now has it begun to get properly pollinated and make fruit: Cucumis dipsaceus, the Hedgehog or Arabian Cucumber. As the name suggests it’s native to the Arabian Peninsula, as well as northeastern Africa, and like other plants in the genus tends to grow as a scrambling ground over vine or trailing up nearby vegetation and supports. Also like its relatives it makes separate male and female flowers, and they have to both be open and visited by a pollinator to set fruit.
Though called a cucumber…this plant is generally not considered to have edible fruits. They can be eaten when very young and green however tend to have a bitter side to them, which only gets stronger as they ripen and turn yellow. Cooking can reduce this somewhat, though will also often liquefy the fruit. The bristles, though soft until maturity, also tend to make for an odd texture.
On the other hand, young shoots and leaves are regularly eaten as a cooked vegetable or powdered into a thickening agent.
This is only the first of hopefully several odd cucurbits to make themselves known, which Burr Gherkins, Kabocha Squash, and others also starting to finally fruit out.

#cucumis #cucumisdipsaceus #cucumber #plants #edibleplants #nature #plantsathome #botany #plantsmakepeoplehappy #educational #horticulture #gardening #carltoncarnivores

Heute Abend haben @theworldof_andrea_su, @janusode und @bash2 auf einen gemütlichen Tomaten-Gurken-Mozarella-Salat 🍅🥒🧀 getroffen und über das Fediverse und die Zukunft von momou.social gesprochen («Momou!», es sieht gut aus! Das Essen und die Zukunft!).

Inzwischen haben wir Mastodon auf Version 4.4.1 aktualisiert und den #FediFetcher als Ergänzung installiert.

... und wir sind alle der Meinung, dass das Fediverse-Einführungsvideo von @_elena der absolute Hammer ist. :fediverse:

Schau selbst: videos.elenarossini.com/w/64Vu

#tomato#mozarella#cucumber