Cucumber Crystal Apple

The charisma of cucumber crystal apple lays in its adorable size combined with a sweet, mild, tender flavour and texture. This appealing fruit will win over any larger cucumber enthusiast with its juicy flesh and thin, edible skin. Apple cucumbers are grown just like regular cucumbers. They are a vigorous climbing variety, and they can be grown in containers or a vegetable bed and given trellises to scramble over outdoors.

Apple Cucumbers are a very old variety cultivated since in 1894 and they were first introduced from New Zealand. Each fruit is the size of a small apple, which refers to their appearance, not their flavour or aroma. They are very similar to a typical cucumber, with tender pale greenish skin and sweet flesh, they have the best flavour while young at about 5cm.

A favourite with children, Apple cucumbers are perfect for popping into lunchboxes for a healthy snack. By late summer this vigorous climber is smothered in small, round fruits like yellow tennis balls for months. It’s an easy-going plant, as happy outside as under cover, and as well as being very pretty.

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