A tisket, a tasket - a lemon cucumber basket!

These are lemon cucumbers from Renee's Garden seeds. Here in Western North Carolina they were prolific throughout July. Pick them before they are two inches in diameter; at one inch they are crispy and the seeds are soft. Great on sandwiches of cream cheese and cucumber. After two inches in diameter their seeds harden and you need to remove them and there is less flesh to eat.

They get their name from their lemony color, not their taste. They are a mild tasting cucumber - a great addition to any salad, or eat plain. We had literally "hundreds" on 5 plants. They vine everywhere. We wove ours upwards on a homemade bamboo trellis and they thrived, producing fruit as they climbed.