gherkins

[ruud]

I have picked my first two outside gherkins and they tasted great,i hadnot ever tasted fresh gherkins only pickled ones.The taste is in a way the same as a cucumber,slightly different.I dont know with variaty it is.The seeds came from a seedswap.When i am not wrong it is marketmore.

[ruud]

[john_miller]

Marketmore is a regular 'slicing' cucumber, ruud, not a gherkin type. As I said before this type of cucumber is my preferred one to eat raw, forget about pickling them (well, almost)!

[ruud]

Hi john,about marketmore you were right.Mayby you know this one.Next to the gherkin is a similair plant growing only i noticed that the little gherkin/cucumber has little thorns on it.What is it and is it good to eat?

[john_miller]

Cucumis meteliferus (Horny cucumber)? I grew it once but it didn't mature- that was the year after Mount Pinatubo blew up and even my watermelons didn't mature. Apparently they are excellent when grown properly but the one I bought once wasn't impressive.

[ruud]

Thanks john for the information,by the way one qld chap said to me that the first one i mentioned is a very old type of dutch cucumber is and i always thought it was a gherkin.