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@GardenGerty (157551)
United States
August 27, 2018 6:57pm CST
I peeled and sliced all the cucumbers and layered them with sliced yellow onions.
Salted lightly and drenched with a little white wine vinegar. These will be yummy tomorrow. Great summer food.
Do you peel your cucumbers. Hubby wants them peeled. My daughter says if from the store, peel them as they are too waxy.
This cucumber plant was supposed to be a "straight eight" plant. Those are usually solid dark green and about eight inches long.
I think someone switched the tags. This looks like a pickler. They are spiny and stubby looking. There are enough little ones on the vine right now for me to make a jar of gherkins, I think.
I have quite a bit of just random produce I need to do something with and have some lovely meals. I really like the freshness of summer.
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
28 Aug 18
I agree with your daughter I peel them if they're from the store (because they won't come clean) but I eat the peelings when they're from the garden.
My cucumbers are spiny but large if I let them grow and they taste like a slicer. I don't remember what kind I planted. It was supposed to be a bush cucumber but it isn't.
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
28 Aug 18
@GardenGerty I grew mine from seed and they still didn't turn out to be what they were supposed to be. Oh, well, they taste good. I hadn't thought of putting the peels in water. That's a good idea!
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
29 Aug 18
@GardenGerty If you have a long enough growing season, why not? If the weather fails you, it only cost you a few seeds.
It's too late to start anything but cold weather crops here. Our "average" frost is mid October but I have seen it snow in September.
@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
@peavey I am tempted to plant some seed even now. One of my first years gardening I planted in August and pickled in September. It was a very hot year.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16534)
• China
28 Aug 18
In summer ,we use cucumbers to make cool dish with garlic , vinegar,salt and sesami oil in it.However we hardly peel them.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
Ooh that sounds good. I will have to see if I have some sesame oil.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Aug 18
That's one success I had in the garden this year: cucumbers.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
I had good luck with herbs in various beds as well as my cucumbers. I have finally set some fruit on the tomato plants.
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@BarBaraPrz (45484)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Aug 18
@GardenGerty I've had four large cherry tomatoes so far. A few more look like they'll be ripe in a few more days.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
I would just scrub them well and not peel them, but it is not hubby's taste.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
That is very true. Local, fresh and unwaxed.
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@LadyDuck (458039)
• Switzerland
29 Aug 18
@GardenGerty It is scary how much wax they put on the products sold in the grocery stores.
@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
Yes, they are. I do not grow a lot right now, but I am enjoying what I have, plus herbs.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
The garden grown, home grown tomatoes sometimes have a tougher skin so people peel them. Or a person might have diverticular disease. I do not peel them, but I do notice the difference between the grocery tomatoes and the home grown.I do wash them, of course.
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@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
28 Aug 18
We don't eat them, so i wouldnt know.
Hope you enjoyed that mix though
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
I have done it with balsamic vinegar and pepper. Sometimes I do dill. I have had it with tomatoes either sliced or cherry tomatoes halved.
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@GardenGerty (157551)
• United States
28 Aug 18
The ones in the stores are waxy and tough. Unless you get burpless or English cucumbers.
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