Red cucumber

Let us know what it tastes like!

Not seen one of those before, don't forget to enter it in the VVS

When is that as it will be winking at me in the next week or so to be eaten

Jonny the VVS went live today

Fruit & Vegetable Showcase

Interesting - is it red inside or just on the skin? What's the variety called?

Hmong Red Cucumbers & A Refreshing Cucumber Mint Cooler
A very unusual cucumber and an equally unusual drink that will cool you down on those hot summer days.

I love to try new things in my garden each year. This year, when looking through the Baker Creek seed catalog, I noticed an unusual orange-yellow cucumber called a Hmong (pronounced Mah-ng) Red. Intrigued, I decided to try them this year and I harvested the first one this weekend.

The Hmong Red cucumber is named after a specific ethnic group (The Hmong) who originate from Asia: China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. About 200,000 ethnic Hmong currently live in the United States, many of them arriving in the mid 1970's as refugees from the Vietnam War.

Although the Baker Creek catalog did not state this specifically, I suspect that these immigrants brought seeds for this unusual cucumber with them, and this is how they made their way into the Baker Creek catalog.

The Hmong red is as easy to grow as any other cucumber -- which is pretty easy. They also grow to an amazing size; the one shown in the attached picture weighed 2 pounds 4 ounces. When young, the cucumber is green, but it gradually turns yellow, and then orange.

That is very different,now every one wants one

Well cut it off today and got to say really tasty