Daily Botanical: Mexican Sour Gherkin
The Mexican Sour Gherkin (Melothria scabra) is producing lots of yummy little cucumber-like fruits. This is my second year growing them.
I’ve been trying to grow their cousin, the West Indian Burr Gherkin for two years straight but either the seeds (obtained from two different sources) have not been very viable or it just has a very low germination rate. I’m going to go more hardcore on that next year.
In the meantime these little “Barbie doll melons” are easy to grow and abundant. Although I rarely seem to get any home with me, preferring to pop them into my mouth while I work on my community garden plot where they are growing.
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August 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
They’re like tiny watermelons! Oh how cute!
August 12th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
They’re like tiny watermelons! Oh how cute!
I was going to say the exact same thing! LOL
August 12th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
You know, Fern, great minds think alike ;)
August 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
The gherkins also look a bit like Gayla’s fingerprint. There’s something rather cosmic about that. (Did I really say, “cosmic”? Must be something in the water.)
August 12th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
That is AWESOME– I so want to grow that next year. Heading over to the info. on growing them!
August 13th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I hid the name of these and asked my husband what he thought they were. Guess what he said, “Duh. Baby watermelons.” LOL! Duh.
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Those are SO CUTE and really AWESOME! I’d love more info about them. Wonder if they’d grow in my climate?