Hello friends, today I took a walk to a cucumber farm. The farm is about 4miles away from my house and it took me about an hour to walk to the farm.
Before I go to the details of how the walk went, let know what a cucumber is.
What's Cucumber
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a vegetable with a cylindrical to spherical fruits and can be eaten raw or use as food spices. It is a vegetable plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits that are used as culinary vegetables.
Types of cucumber
There are three main types of cucumber and they are:
- slicing,
- pickling, and
- seedless
Origin of Cucumber
The origin of cucumber can be traced to Asia extending from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China (Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi), and Northern Thailand.
Presently, cucumber grows on most continents, and many different types of cucumber are grown commercially and traded on the global market.
Important of Cucumber
There are many importance of cucumber based on it usage
so Cucumberr 🥒 being a nutritious fruit with a high water content is used as culinary spices.
- Eating cucumber may help lower blood sugar, prevent constipation, and support weight loss.
- eating the peel help freshen the skin.
- it helps in food digestion.
Arriving the farm
On arrival, I met the Farmers working in the farm.
The plant has grown massively and they were done with the staking of the cucumber plants.
I met them spraying the farm with chemicals to protect the plant from insects and to aids healthy yield of the cucumber using sprayer.
As at the time of my visit, the cucumber did not yield.
It was a wonderful walk.
Thanks for stopping by @devoice.