I totally restarted from scratch with the
cukes and broccoli.
Several frozen water bottles placed in the bottom of a cooler and covered with a towel makes a fine quickie
cuke cooler.
So if you want to feel, shall we say, cool as a cucumber, pack a handful of crisp mini
cukes in your lunch box or glove compartment or backpack.
I begin by planting more cucumber seeds, which are relatively quick-growing and will supply a second crop of crisp
cukes for a late-summer harvest, just when the first crop starts to lose steam.
Those first few years, we stuck with our garden staples: assorted varieties of tomatoes, heritage cucumbers like lemon
cukes, string beans, radishes, bell peppers, winter squash, zucchini, sugar snap peas, kale, spinach, and leaf lettuce.
Save the real
cukes for your crudite platter at the after-party.
leaves and the harvest: squash, carrots,
cukes. I leave you now, as
By the end of the outbreak, the tainted
cukes had caused 838 reported illnesses in thirty-eight states, including 165 hospitalizations and four deaths.
As with most fruiting crops,
cukes need a sunny garden spot.
Along the way, products that made it into what we came to think of as the "Gold Circle" -- they earned across-the-board accolades, even from our pickiest participants -- included such crowd-pleasers as: DB Miller Strother's Brewed Cold Coffee Juice, Genuine Grub Mint & Dill '
Cukes, Mediterranean Snacks BBQ Bean Stalks, Natalie's Freshly Handcrafted Orange Beet Juice, Nature's Path Qi'a Superfood Oatmeal Creamy Coconut, and Noosa Pumpkin Yoghurt.
Hundreds of boxes of fresh
cukes were unloaded throughout the morning after the rig hit the low bridge around 6 a.m.
They took a leap of faith and started a business with a pickle recipe from Jenny's grandmother and some homegrown
cukes. Now, three years later, jars of Miss Jenny's Pickles sell in 800-plus U.S.
Slicing "
cukes" are thick-skinned and consumed in their fresh form, while the pickling variety are smaller and have thinner skins.
Snowflake, Ariz.-based EuroFresh describes the Snacking Cucumbers as seedless petite
cukes with a non-bitter skin, sold in 8-ounce bags.
