A couple of weeks back one half of the little gardeners was left sofa bound after an injection in the achilles tendon, nice! One lovely friend, Jenny, came over with a bounty of supplies which included a rather fetching plant from Greenwich Market labeled a 'snacker'.A quick read of the label tells me it's a mini-cucumber plant, how brilliant! It had a few little baby ones on it already but my they grow quickly! Literally from a small cucumber, maybe the size of a childs little finger into what you see above in about 4 days (photographed next to a cherry tom so you can get the idea of scale). Quite impressive if you ask me!
So, Jenny, thank you very much, we had one for dinner this evening in our salad. I'm sure a little girl I know will be more than happy to devour a few so we'll save the next one for stinker!
Here's the website if you want to read a little more.
http://www.snacker.nl/2008/index_en.htm
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