Armenian cucumbers

[brokephibroke]

Neighbor gave me one today, anyone have any experience with these?

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. I know

English cucumbers and lemon cucumbers, but what does an Armenian cucumber even look like? Generally a cucumber is a cucumber and you deal with them pretty much the same. Tzatziki?

[brokephibroke]

2. It's actually a musk melon

But allegedly tastes like a cuke. It is a curly thing with light green skin.

[CrispyQ]

3. I thought a musk melon was like a cantaloupe. ??? -edited

From a Google search:

Are cantaloupe and muskmelon the same?

There is technically a difference, but often the names are used interchangeably. The term cantaloupe refers to two varieties of muskmelon. ... While both of these cantaloupe varieties are muskmelons, not all muskmelons are cantaloupes. The name muskmelon comes from the sweet fragrance of the ripe fruit.

[brokephibroke]

4. Yep one in the same

I’ve never heard of them until today….

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. I'd say

slice and taste. Bon appetit!

[brokephibroke]

7. Plan is a salad

To go with Greek shrimp and rice.

[CrispyQ]

5. I'd never heard of them either. Here's a pic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_cucumber#/media/File:Cucumis_melo_flexuosus.jpg

[Mr.Bill]

8. We grew a bunch of them a few years ago.

I really liked them. They have a sweet almost melon-like flavor to them. We ate them raw, mostly on salads. The natural flavor of them was so good I couldn't see any reason to cook, pickle or season them. Thy produced very well for us, too. I had two plants and they spread out to about a 10X10 area. I think I got about 30 or 40 of them mostly the size of say, a childs forearm. We had so many we gave a lot of them away.

We downsized our housing and don't really have enough room or I would still be growing them.

[Jilly_in_VA]

9. They might grow

in a large tub if you have room for that. Put a "teepee" in the tub and let them grow up instead of out. Cucumbers will train up a pole pretty nicely. I did that with my lemon cukes but something got at them. There are books on urban gardening that show you how to do stuff like that.

[Mr.Bill]

10. I could find room if I had to.

But we are in a mobile home space of 35'X75'. I have a lot of things growing, even 12 corn stalks this year. We call it the Trailer Park Farm. Some day I may grow some more. The plants are hard to find around here, too.