Cucumbers

If you want to grow round apple cucumbers, go for heritage variety ‘Green Apple’ ( from Koanga Gardens and in punnets from garden centres) which lacks the bitterness of ‘Crystal Apple’. These are great for school lunchboxes.

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Homegrown cucumbers are ecofriendlier than store-bought shrinkwrapped specimens – plus you can pickle the inevitable surplus crop. In her former city garden, NZ Gardener columnist Lynda Hallinan once picked 65 smooth, thin-skinned, seedless...

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