Cucumbers... They're Dill-icious Anytime!
Elegant Cucumber Twining About
Cucumbers
A Few Facts Courtesy of Wikipedia
The cucumber is a creeping vine that roots in the ground and grows up trellises or other supporting frames, wrapping around ribbing with thin, spiraling tendrils. The plant has large leaves that form a canopy over the fruit.The fruit is roughly cylindrical, elongated, with tapered ends, and may be as large as 60 cm long and 10 cm in diameter. Cucumbers grown to be eaten fresh (called slicers) and those intended for pickling (called picklers) are similar. Cucumbers are mainly eaten in the unripe green form. The ripe yellow form normally becomes too bitter and sour.
Having an enclosed seed and developing from a flower, cucumbers are scientifically classified as fruits. Much like tomatoes and squash, however, their sour-bitter flavor contributes to cucumbers being perceived, prepared and eaten as vegetables. Still, "vegetable" is a purely culinary term, and there is no conflict in classifying cucumber as both a fruit and a vegetable.
Feta Salad with Cucumber
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Cucumber Pickles & Dips for the Pantry
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Empire Cucumber Melon 20 ounce Mottled Wax Candle
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Grow Your Own Cucumbers
A Selection of Cucumber Seeds
Straight Eight Cucumber 400 Seeds
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Organic Heirloom Armenian Cucumber 75 Seeds
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Cucumber Homemade Pickles Seeds 100 Seeds
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Organic Heirloom Armenian Cucumbers
Cucumber Seeds on eBay
Grow Your Own Cucumbers
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I * Love * Cucumbers -- 5 Fabulous Recipes!
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Did you learn something new about cucumbers?
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- WindyWinters WindyWinters Jul 27, 2009 @ 11:00 pm
- I love your green cucumbers lens so much! I featured your lens on my green veggies lens. I appreciate your blessings! Thanks again!
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- italianheart92 italianheart92 Jun 27, 2009 @ 8:34 am
- Great lens! You have a lot of really great stuff here very nice job! :)
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- jeffwend jeffwend Sep 4, 2008 @ 3:15 pm
- I love cucumbers. They are one of my favorite vegetables, good with just about everything. Blessings for cucumbers!
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- eccles1 eccles1 Aug 23, 2008 @ 5:51 pm
- What a yummy lens I love cucumbers!
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- Margo_Arrowsmith Margo_Arrowsmith Aug 23, 2008 @ 6:14 am
- Great photography!
And I love cucumbers as do my dalmatians, Zoe and Leo, the Princess and the Pauper! (There is a lens somewhere on here with that title where you can see them eating cucumbers! Well, Zoe is eating asparagus, but she likes them too)
Wonderful lens!
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