The giant cucumber...

The old tenants from our house left some plants growing in their veggie garden. One of them had long sausage shaped fruit on it when we moved in, so at that time we were guessing they may have been cucumbers or gerkins etc. But when the kept growing larger and larger, we changed our minds and thought they were some sort of melon (the are the size and shape of seedless watermelons). Anyway we picked one over a month ago, but hadn't got around to cutting it open (with the cooler weather, we don't really feel like eating melon). Anyway I had the idea last night that I could cut it up and give it to the chooks as a treat (they apparently like watermelon - especially in summer - it helps cool them down). So today I attacked it with a knife and...it was pale green/white on the inside and had the distinct aroma of cucumber! So our original guess was right! And thankfully we have chooks to feed it to, because I don't think we would feel like eating the giant cucumber.