Have you ever seen such a bizarre looking cucumber? It grew through a light plastic mesh fence I installed to protect my Rhode Island garden, which I planted on an earlier visit. (Did you miss my post about moving across the country?) Everything seems to grow very well in the Ocean State so I’m satisfying my gardening itch for sure. The smaller plants I culled from my garden will go into my homemade composters.
You can still see a little of the black mesh, which the cucumber partly swallowed. It took me a few minutes to cut the questioning vegetable free. I plan to use it in one of my favorite salads, which I copied from a friend who isn’t fond of measuring spoons.
Favorite cucumber salad
1 cucumber, chopped small
juice of two lemon (or to taste)
chili pepper (few dashes)
cayenne pepper (if you like it spicy)
If you can, marinate everything for an hour, but this is optional. You can also add diced red onions or a diced tomato. Has anything as strange as my cucumber grown in your garden?
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The lemon tree in my front yard has produced some truly bizarre-looking specimens over the years. Usually it’s because the individual fruit gets hung up on one of the branches or twigs, and sometimes it’s because one will grow to enormous proportions. The zucchini that my late husband planted occasionally grew to the size of a baseball bat! Nothing to do but cut it lengthwise, seed it, stuff it and bake it… yummmmmm! Bell peppers and cukes often take on unusual shapes, but are still usable either in chopped salads or in cooking. There’s always a way to use even the ugly ducklings amongst all the swans!
i had that too in ca i had orange and lemon trees they got mixed up dam bees and i had half and half so i always had lemon orange juice it was sweet sour and peeled
My mom always had a garden when I was a little girl. I would have fun helping her plant and when the time came pick, the ripe vegetables.
I think it’s time I start enjoying gardening again as an adult.
Looks like a zuccini to me. They come in a wide variety of shapes!.
Welcome to the east coast 🙂
I have the same thing happen, as we plant our cucumbers on a plastic fence that is used as temporary fencing – that orange stuff. Sometimes I have to cut the fence to get them off. Sometimes we get eggplants and tomatoes that look like they have a noses coming off of them. Mother Nature has a sense of humor.