Cool as a Cucumber | DALLAS GARDEN BUZZ
July 25, 2024
Have you ever learnt that not all cukes are created equal? To simplify, there are two primary types of cucumbers, American and English. Each may very well be utilized for pickling and slicing. This yr I made a decision to strive the English selection in my raised yard mattress. Furthermore, to avoid dropping area, I used a trellis selection help system for rising it vertically. That proved to be an exquisite choice.
13 inch extended English cucumber able to be harvested from my yard
After about two and a half months contained in the flooring, my little cucumber transplant has lined the trellis and produced over a dozen cucumbers. English cucumbers often develop thinner and straighter than their American counterparts and can develop contained in the fluctuate of 12 to 24 inches extended. Up to now, I’ve been harvesting them at spherical 12 to 14 inches in dimension.
English cucumbers have a sweeter model and delicate pores and pores and pores and skin that could be a lot a lot much less bitter than that of assorted cucumbers. Many sources say that English cucumbers are inclined to have just some seeds nonetheless, as you in all probability can see from the {{photograph}}, mine had a beneficiant quantity.
Seeding an English cucumber with a serrated grapefruit spoon
Ideas for rising:
*Plant in an home of the yard that receives a minimal 6 hours of sunshine day-after-day.
*Put collectively the soil by tilling appropriately whereas along with aged compost to a depth of 6 inches.
*On widespread, cucumbers require: 1 inch of water per week in widespread circumstances, twice per day when temperatures exceed 90°F.
*Add a 4-inch layer of pure mulch spherical base, nonetheless not touching the stem.
One among my favourite cucumber recipes is from a spot contained in the Texas hill nation the place my husband and I, for over 35 years, at all times cherished having lunch. It was a completely charming restaurant in Fredericksburg often often known as ‘The Peach Tree Tea Room’. The Pedregon household opened their new enterprise inside the autumn of 1984. It launched in diners from everywhere in america and internationally, as appropriately. Sadly, it closed only some years before now leaving a void contained in the Fredericksburg culinary scene. Fortunately, via the years, I bought all three of their unbelievable cookbooks. The recipe I’m sharing is from their first cookbook, printed in 1990. It’s the recipe for ‘Chilled Creamy Cucumber Soup’.
Making the recipe over the weekend launched as soon as extra cherished recollections from these early days in Fredericksburg. It was considerably rewarding to make the most of three of the weather usually referred to as for contained in the recipe from my yard; English cucumbers, parsley and garlic that was curing in my pantry.
Chilled Creamy Cucumber Soup Garnished with Freshly Chopped Parsley and Tomatoes
Hope you may be impressed to take a cool and refreshing break with ‘Chilled Creamy Cucumber Soup’. Contained in the meantime, sit once more with these tasty, sliced cucumber appetizers.
English cucumber slices topped with Herbed Cream Cheese, Salad Burnet and Borage Blossoms
And, merely in case you may need been curious concerning the title…’Cool as a Cucumber’. I did a fast on-line search and located one issue new. First, the within of cucumbers are roughly 20 ranges cooler than the ground air. And the phrase ‘cool as a cucumber’ first appeared in a poem by the English writer John Homosexual in 1732. It expresses the narrator’s angst concerning a girl with unreturned love! As we converse, that phrase is used to make clear any one who tends to stay calm, assured and composed in any state of affairs.
Linda Alexander, Dallas County Grasp Gardener Class of 2008
Chilled Creamy Cucumber Soup
Cucumber Slices Topped With Herbed Cream Cheese
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July 25, 2024 Have you ever learnt that not all cukes are created equal? To simplify, there are two primary types of cucumbers, American and English. Each may very well be utilized for pickling and slicing. This yr I made a decision to strive the English selection in my raised…