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Post by Alan on Apr 12, 2007 20:40:27 GMT -5
I picked up an ounce of these today from the local seed store. Anybody got any reviews. Any good?
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Post by downinmyback on Apr 12, 2007 21:13:05 GMT -5
That does not sound good a WHITE Pickle lol.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 12, 2007 21:55:32 GMT -5
I have a few seeds that were sent to me for a Christmas gift..it will be my first year with White Pickles too,  We'll compare.  |
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Post by downinmyback on Apr 12, 2007 22:42:02 GMT -5
Do you eat them on WHITE BREAD or buns lol J/K i like some usual items but i cannot image a WHITE CUCUMBER.
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Post by brook on Apr 13, 2007 4:58:21 GMT -5
Actually white cucumbers go way way back.
Tom Jefferson grew Little White Cukes, and shared them with that whole VA-NC-Philadelphia group of landed gentry who play with all things horticulture. My line of them may have come from Jefferson's stock, because the people I got them from have been in that part of NC since the late 1600s.
There some (inconclusive) evidence that the Little White was originally Russian.
AHSC also has a full size white cuke in it's collection. Jimmy's White has been in the same family since at least 1900, and possibly earlier than that.
There are several others. Nowadays the most popular is the Boothby's Blond, out of Maine.
This non-recognition of white cucumbers is part of what we call the smooth-red-round syndrome. We've been socialized by convention and regulation to think of vegetables as fitting certain molds. Tomatoes are smooth, red, and round. Carrots are tapered and orange. Turnips are white with purple tops. And, to put a point on it, cucumbers are green.
None of this is true, of course, as you quickly discover when you start exploring the facinating world of heirloom veggies.
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Post by downinmyback on Apr 13, 2007 14:21:08 GMT -5
I know that we think of vegetables of being of a certain color but some still doesnot get your juices going like others.I remember i caught a albino catfish in the Mississippi river it was white with pink eyes. I carried it home and cleaned it with the other catfish but it didnot seem to have the flavor of the other channel catfish. I know most of this is in my head but it is hard to change old ways.
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Post by redbrick on Apr 13, 2007 19:52:59 GMT -5
Well, when you consider that a lot of vitamins (in plants at least) are tied up in pigmentation, that lack of flavor may NOT have been in your head. I don't have any proof of this, juat a thread of reasoning, but I'd imagine it's possible. Personally, I like the "odd" varieties! Especially bicolor tomatoes, yum!
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Post by LoreD on Apr 13, 2007 19:58:24 GMT -5
I grew white wonder last year. It was OK but nothing memorable. It was nice to mix the different colors in the salad. I don't feel a strong desire to grow it again.
LoreD
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 13, 2007 21:21:16 GMT -5
Maybe I should hold off then? I have Lemon Cucumbers that I definitely want to try this year as well as the more "normal" Early Russian and a Japanese hybrid that I will be picking up from a Japanese friend in another month.
The White's can wait.
Maybe next year I can do a Black and White Theme garden?? Black tomatoes, White Cukes and White Velvet Okra.
Although White Cukes and Mennonite Orange tomatoes sound very summery do they not??
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We'll compare. 