Cucumbers

For most of us a cucumber is a long green thing that we can slice, or chop and eat pickled, or with salad. However, there is a lot more to this much underrated vegetable. Cucumbers are very versatile and widely cultivated. They are in fact gourds of the family cucurbitaceae. This is a creeping vine that grows up trellis and fences clinging on with its on tendrils for support and its big leaves protect the fruit. There are several different varieties which are normally in their 'green' unripe state because ripe cucumbers turn yellow and become too bitter to eat. The Armenian cucumber is snakelike in shape and crisp, mild. It has a very thin skin and ...  Read the complete review

Cucumbers Cucumbers are a half hardy annual trailing plant, which are best grown in the greenhouse for a good crop of deliciously tasting salad vegetables. The cucumbers can be grown from six to 12 inches long depending on soil condition and the climate they are grown under. They love temperatures of around 21 centigrade which can be kept constant in a greenhouse with the right equipment however they can also be grown with good results under a cold frame in the garden. The smaller types of cucumbers are called gherkins and are not as large as the popular salad veg, these can also be grown outside and can be pickled when ready to store over ...  Read the complete review

Hello, I bet all of you are wondering how I know so much about crops. To tell you the truth, like all the other "cool" farm kids in my hometown, those of us with purple "FFA" (Future Farmers of America) jackets, who got to drive our dads combines to school on one day each year, I studied Agriculture. But more important than that education was what I learned when my father was killed in a horrible accident when I was 7 and I became the head of our farm. Dad took us to the fair and I was going to show my prize fryer that day but he got drunk and fell out of the ferris wheel when his hat that held two cans of beer on it slipped off his ...  Read the complete review

Dear people of UK and Ireland (where between seven days I'll be happy guest), I am an Italian member of dooyoo.it. I hope that you excuse me for my orrible english and many mistakes you'll find in my opinion... In Italy this is named "Inglese maccheronico". (I speek how I eat... You also, but Italian food is better, sorry!) I (and my friends and nephews), arrive in dooyoo.co.uk, from dooyoo.it for spend a little happy time... how great Roberto Benigni teach us! Now I approfitt of this occasion for send a supplication to all cooks, waiters and waitresses. I'll go to display to you. I went in GB in 1978, 1984, ...  Read the complete review