Kitchen

[qualitygal]

That made me think of zucchini's too.  I loved everything I could do with those that were large. I did a whole meal and dessert one time of zucchini foods. 

[Othereeeen]

@RedTop 

"Straight 8" and "Marketmore" ( Now THERE's name with truth to it!!!)

Your post reminded me of last year end of season, when the cuke vines looked almost dead and they were STILL loaded with cukes,and even had little cukes trying to grow!!

Astounding growth of today's veggies!!!

I didn't have even a little veggie garden this year cause of hip replacement in June, but will again next year, and even reading about these cukes and zukes makes me hope winter hurries up and passes so I can plant a few next year!!!!

[Sooner]

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@Q-Checker wrote:

Glad to read so many good suggestions on what to do with your giant cuke. Throwing food out is .......

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@Q-Checker It's what you do when it is overgrown and too old to eat.  It happens and is just normal.

[Q-Checker]

@Sooner -- sorry, I did not spell out that anything that is inedible should not be eaten. 

[jannabelle1]

Before you throw it away, at least slice a piece and taste it! It mighht be a perfectly wonderful cucumber! If it's bitter or tastes awful, then toss it...but at least you'll know you checked it.

[Sooner]

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@Q-Checker wrote:

@Sooner-- sorry, I did not spell out that anything that is inedible should not be eaten. 

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@Q-Checker Yes, but if it isn't good you don't have to eat it either.  You can't send it to someone else.  

[Happy2BHere]

It could always be worse! I just saw this story on BBC America about this guys giant cucumber winning at the September 23 UK National Giant Vegetables Championships. Now that's a lot of cuke! Wonder what they'll do with that one 

His family and friends call him Vince the Veg.

And green-fingered Vincent Sjodin from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, has certainly earned that nickname, having just grown the world's heaviest cucumber.

Measuring 4ft (1.2m) long, it weighed in at a whopping 29lb 8oz (13.4kg) - equivalent to an average mountain bike - at last month's UK National Giant Vegetables Championships.

[RedTop]

@Happy2BHere 

I seriously doubt that yellow cucumber will be consumed by a human!   

A huge yellow cucumber in the 2 varieties we grew were always fed to the pigs because it meant we had either been lazy in our daily picking, or the vine was no longer healthy.

[colleena]

Everyone, well the cukes didn't work out at all.  I tried tzieki (sp?) & many others that were brought up here.  I think as mentioned above they were just old, dry, bitter & better to be not eaten by me.  

[Queen of shop]

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@colleena wrote:

Everyone, well the cukes didn't work out at all.  I tried tzieki (sp?) & many others that were brought up here.  I think as mentioned above they were just old, dry, bitter & better to be not eaten by me.  

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@colleena  Aww, that's ashame, but look at it this way, you can get some fresh cukes at the market and still try some of the great ideas that you received here.

Good luck