Pickling Main article: with , sugar, , and spices creates various flavored products from cucumbers and other foods | Pepones" Reportedly, they were also cultivated in specularia, cucumber houses glazed with oiled cloth |
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The small form of the cucumber is figured in of the 16th century, however stating that "[i]f hung in a tube while in blossom, the Cucumber will grow to a most surprising length | Production Production of cucumbers and gherkins, 2019 Country millions of 70 |
[ ] The fruit of typical cultivars of cucumber is roughly , but elongated with tapered ends, and may be as large as 62 centimeters 24 in long and 10 centimeters 4 in in diameter.
1The term is also used in the name for , the West Indian gherkin, a closely related species | 12, Sport and Leusure: Roman Gardening Technology" |
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Description The cucumber is a that roots in the ground and grows up or other supporting frames, wrapping around supports with thin, spiraling | In the , these are usually grown in , where are excluded |
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23FAOSTAT of the United Nations | In 1630, the Reverend produced a book called New-Englands Plantation in which, describing a garden on Conant's Island in known as The Governor's Garden, he states: The countrie aboundeth naturally with store of roots of great varietie [ ] and good to eat |
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Burpless Burpless cucumbers are sweeter and have a thinner skin than other varieties of cucumber | University of California-Davis: Western Institute for Food Safety and Security, US Department of Agriculture |