How do they get on in the UK?
Has anyone grown anything else different or exotic?
I like the look of Malabar cucumbers I wonder whether they will grow here.
http://shilpa-cookbook.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/magge-thoy-or-malabar-cucumber-rasam.html
Never tried, but I'd be interested in hearing about any other exotic veg you can grow here.
I am hoping to give the cucumbers a whirl. I have prefected the straw bale method of keeping things warm so hopefully I can give them a good chance. But sometime delicates just become expensive slug food. And straw bales certainly harbour slugs. My first couple of slug free years was such a pleasure. I had all sorts rampaging about the place.
Not very exotic, but I've grown Chinese cucumbers.
I think Jeannine grew exploding cucumbers once. :icon_rendeer:
Had a go at growing Dudi type squash from Bangladesh (seeds kindly donated by Squash64). These are lagenaria siceraria squashes with white flowers. I got very close and they were flowering but then sadly just not producing because we ran out of growing season. Squash herself got fruits (if I remember right).
This one needs to be started very early or grown in the greenhouse.