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A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.
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The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.
Examples of cucumbers in a Sentence
Strawberries and cucumbers have been ripened in a forcing frame.
Among vegetables the common kinds grown include radishes, pumpkins, cucumbers, melons, potatoes, onions and leeks.
It is the chief town of the Spreewald, and has saw-mills and manufactories of hosiery, shoes and paper, and is famous for its gurken, or small pickling cucumbers.
Whenever continuous supplies of cucumbers, melons and tomatoes are required, it is most convenient to grow them in properly constructed forcing houses.
Pits and frames of various kinds are frequently used for the cultivation of cucumbers and melons, as well as hot beds covered by ordinary garden frames.
For quick growing plants, however, as for example most annuals cultivated in pots, such as balsams, cockscombs, globe-amaranths and the like, for cucumbers, and for young soft-wooded plants generally, it is exceedingly useful, both by preventing the consolidation of the soil and as a manure.
Prepare manure for making up hotbeds for early cucumbers and melons, where pits heated with hot water are not in use; also for Ashleaf potatoes.
In the first fortnight of the month, plant hardy cucumbers for pickling, in a warm border, placing handglasses over them towards the end of the month.
Cucumbers and tomatoes will require more than ordinary attention.
The first ten days of this month will yet be time enough to sow sweet corn, beets, lettuce, beans, cucumbers and ruta-baga turnips.
The principal market products are cauliflower, cabbage, onions, asparagus, gherkins, cucumbers, beans, peas, &c. The principal flowers are hyacinths, tulips, crocuses, narcissus and other bulbous plants, the total export of which is estimated at over 200,000.
It includes the ancient crinoids, sea urchins, starfish and brittlestars and sea cucumbers.
It was all a long way from pickled cucumbers in 1950s Acton.. .
You can eat as many cucumbers as you like, and drive home later.
Marketer long produces a very heavy yield of long, smooth green cucumbers.
Larvae of other echinoderms are also present in the plankton, like those of sea urchins, sea cucumbers and brittle stars.
Sweet peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, celery, salads and globe artichokes can all be sown in a frost-free greenhouse.
You are beginning to anticipate having a bountiful harvest of cucumbers for salads and maybe even pickles.
Have a leafy green such as creamed spinach and a salad with cucumbers, tomatoes and feta cheese.
Produces an abundant yield of tasty cucumbers on vigorous vines.
The vegetable productions are less numerous, but they include sweet potatoes, cabbages, cauliflower, lettuce, beans, peas, onions, garlic, tomatoes, okra, radishes, cucumbers, couve, chuchu (Sechium edule), and aipim (Manihot aipi).
Dates, almonds, grapes, figs, peaches, apricots, olives, and in rainy years melons and cucumbers grow there without irrigation.
Its crop of potatoes in 1909 was 52,560,000 bushels and that of Maine, the next largest, 29,250,000 bushels; and the state is a large producer of onions, turnips, cabbages, cauliflower, sweet Indian corn, cucumbers, rhubarb, parsnips, carrots, green peas and green beans.
Among the common vegetables used in the green state are peas, beans, cabbage, cauliflowers, asparagus, Indian corn, onions, leeks, tomatoes, lettuce, radish, celery, parsley, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash and rhubarb.
The state ranks high in the production of potatoes, cabbages, lettuce and turnips, and it produces large crops of sweet Indian corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, musk-melons, asparagus and celery.
These are used both for the summer growth and winter protection of various kinds of ornamental plants, for the growth of such fruits as cucumbers, melons and strawberries, and for the forcing of vegetables.
Continue the forcing of melons, cucumbers, tomatoes and the various fruits.
Continue the preparation of succession beds and pits for cucumbers and melons.
Sow vegetable marrows and hardy cucumbers on a warm border in the last week; sow cardoons in trenches, or (in the north) in pots under glass shelter; sow chicory for salading.
Plant melons and cucumbers on the hotbeds prepared for vegetables in February, and now free.
Proceed with planting melons, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Prune melons and cucumbers, giving air and water and maintaining heat, &c. Continue the routine treatment in the tomatohouses.
Sow tomatoes and cucumbers for a winter crop. Make up mushroom beds.
Take care that late melons, cucumbers and tomatoes be not injured by getting too much water and too little air.
The remedy is to spray with kerosene emulsion or whale-oil soap; or if on cucumbers or tomatoes, it is best to fumigate with hydrocyanic acid gas, using one ounce of potassium cyanide to each woo cubic ft.
Seeds of Lima beans, sweet corn, melon, okra, cucumbers, &c., should be sown; and sow for succession peas, spinach, lettuce, beans, radishes, &c., every ten days.
The Berber diet largely consists of cucumbers, gourds, water-melons and onions, and a small artichoke (Cynara humilis) which grows wild.
Yams, several kinds of sweet potatoes, melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, pineapples, bananas and mangosteens are cultivated, as also are a large number of other fruits.
Sweet Indian corn, cabbages, turnips, cucumbers and tomatoes are grown in large quantities.
There are large green-houses in and near Ashtabula, and quantities of lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes are raised under glass and shipped to Pittsburg and other large cities.
Saginaw is situated in a good farming region with a fertile soil, especially adapted to the culture of sugar beets; other important crops are beans, cabbages, tomatoes, cucumbers, hay, apples and grains.
Carrots, melons, vegetable marrows, cucumbers and onions are extensively grown.
Pears, plums; apricots, cherries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, currants, gooseberries, cabbages, onions, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and cucumbers are grown in considerable quantities.
You can also try using cucumbers or cooled chamomile tea bags on those days when your eyes are really out of hand.
Vegetables like cucumbers, carrots and onions are popular items as well as crab meat, shrimp and even hamburger.
In a large mixing bowl, combine corn, cucumbers, onions, garlic, and tomatoes.
The slicing disc is great for cucumbers, carrots, even cabbage.
Cabbage, turnips and cucumbers are the main vegetables in kimchee.
Vegetables - Onions, tomatoes, eggplant, and cucumbers are staples.
Fiber is found in almost all vegetables, especially when you leave the skin on veggies such as carrots and cucumbers.