Cucumber.

Cucumbers are a wonderfully rewarding crop to grow in your home garden. You can use cucumbers to pickle or to eat raw in salads. Cucumbers are highly nutritious and are a good source of sulfur, silicon, chlorine potassium, sodium, magnesium, and fluorine. They are also said to help aid digestion and constipation. Many people use cucumbers on the skin as a beauty aid as well.

It is thought the cucumbers were first domesticated in India. However, cucumbers quickly spread throughout Europe and Asia, and were widely consumed throughout this region by the 6th and 7th centuries A.D. Today, cucumbers are one of the world’s favorite vegetables.

There are a huge number of cucumber varieties available. Whether you grow exotic Armenian cucumbers or smaller gherkin cucumbers, you’ll find that growing cucumbers can be a fun and exciting hobby.