Armenian cucumber.
With its long, curved shape, the Armenian cucumber has gained the nicknames snake cucumber and snakemelon. The thin skin of an Armenian cucumber will be either a uniform shade of light green, or have light yellow and dark green pinstripes.
What kind of cucumber is long and skinny?
English cucumbers
English (Or Seedless) Cucumbers
English cucumbers are also called hot-house cucumbers and seedless cucumbers. This variety is long and thin with dark green skin. You will often find this variety wrapped in plastic at supermarkets, but you can find unwrapped ones at farmers markets.
What are the different types of cucumbers?
Slicing Cucumbers
- English Cucumbers. These types of cucumbers are long and slender, with narrower ends.
- Green Fingers Persian Cucumbers.
- Muncher Cucumbers.
- Ashley Cucumbers.
- Diva Cucumbers.
- Sweet Success Cucumbers.
- Straight Eight Cucumbers.
What is a long English cucumber?
The English cucumber is long, thin, and straight. It can be twice the length of a regular slicing cucumber; a typical English cucumber is around 14 inches long. The skin is dark green and smooth (meaning without any bumps found on pickling cucumbers) with ridges running the length of the vegetable.
What is the largest cucumber variety?
The Armenian Yard-Long Cucumber is the longest cucumber available on the market. This high-yielding plant produces light-green fruits that grow up to 3 feet long (although they are best when harvested at closer to 1 foot long). If harvested regularly, these cucumbers will keep bearing fruit all season.
Why are my cucumbers long and skinny?
Poor Pollination
Improper pollination is often responsible for misshapen cucumbers with skinny centers. Cucumber plants produce both male and female flowers. Honeybees and other insects are needed for transference of pollen from the male flower to the female flower for fruit development.
What looks like a cucumber but isn t?
What Is a Zucchini? Also cylindrical, dark green on the outside, and pale on the inside, zucchini are often mistaken for cucumbers at first sight, and the two are related. The zucchini plant is also a type of gourd, but of the species cucurbita pepo—the same as pumpkins and squashes.
How do I know what kind of cucumbers I have?
Measure the length of the cucumber. Armenian cucumbers are longer than most other varieties. English cucumbers are also long, but are usually slightly shorter than Armenian cucumbers. Garden cucumbers, which are the most common variety in North America, are usually shorter than both Armenian and English varieties.
What is the tastiest cucumber?
The best-tasting cucumbers are those that are slicing cucumbers. English cucumbers don’t have the bitter chemical cucurbitacin that some cucumbers have. They also have higher natural sugar content, making them sweeter. The lack of seeds and thinner skin also English cucumbers more enjoyable to eat.
What’s the difference between a cucumber and English cucumber?
Main Difference Between Slicing and English Cucumbers
The slicing cucumber is shorter, fatter, with thicker skin, and has larger seeds. De-seed this cucumber before eating as the seeds can taste bitter. The English cucumber is typically a darker green, longer, more slender, with fewer seeds.
What’s the difference between English cucumbers and Japanese cucumbers?
Japanese cucumbers are similiar to English cucumbers. They are, long, narrow and have a prickly exterior. They were bred to be “burpless” and tend to be much less bitter than some types of cucumbers. Use raw, in salads, but may also be used for tea sandwiches or in chilled cucumber soup.
What is a Burpless cucumber?
“Burpless” means the cucumbers contain little to no cucurbitacin, the compound that causes bitterness and can cause indigestion.
How big is the longest cucumber?
42.13in
The current Guinness World Record for the longest cucumber, which was grown in Wales in 2011, is 107cm (42.13in).
What is the fastest growing cucumber?
Spacemaster
Spacemaster cucumbers are also one of the fastest growing cucumbers and you can start harvesting them after only 56 days.
What does a Persian cucumber look like?
Persian cucumbers are cylindrical and squat, averaging only 10-15 centimeters in length. Its outer skin is dark green and thin with visible, shallow ridges. The inner flesh is light green with a firm and moist texture and very few, undeveloped seeds.
What causes pointy cucumbers?
Sometimes too much fertilizer can cause deformed cucumbers. As they mature, cucumbers require less feeding. On the other hand, deformities in cucumbers could mean there were insufficient nutrients in the soil right from the get-go. In this case, a side-dressing of fertilizer or compost will help.
Do cucumbers continue to ripen after they are picked?
Cucumbers do not continue ripening once harvested. Harvest fruit in the morning, when the vines are cool and damp. Don’t leave cucumbers on the vines for too long.
What happens if cucumbers get too big?
When growing cucumbers in your garden, don’t believe “the bigger, the better” and keep the cucumbers on the vine longer than the variety is supposed to. . But you should NOT wait for it to grow even larger than it’s supposed to! This is because it can begin rotting and halt the growth of new cucumbers.
Do you eat the skin on Armenian cucumbers?
Feggous or Armenian cucumbers often have a curved shape (hence the “bendy” name) and have thin, ridged skin. They’re somewhat drier than regular cucumbers and all of it is edible; nothing goes to waste as usually the skin is eaten, too.
Do you peel an Armenian cucumber?
In my experience, Armenian cucumbers have never needed peeling or de-seeding, so you can add that to the list of their virtues. If all you have are regular cucumbers, you can still make this salad. Just peel them if they are bitter and de-seed them if the seeds are well-developed.
Are Armenian cucumbers good for you?
Armenian cucumber is great for your cardiovascular health as it is rich in potassium and helps in maintaining your blood pressure levels(herbs to control high blood pressure).
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