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Indoor cucumbers, and wild cucumber relatives

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Maryland Grows

This month’s post is Proud Mom Edition. Both my sons enjoy growing plants inside their apartments – all that botanical indoctrination paid off! My younger son, Patrick, has now managed to grow food in his sunny 21st-floor Chicago flat: a…

Cocktails from the garden

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Maryland Grows

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I present to you the Mouse Melon Martini: Martini recipe of your choice with a pickled mouse melon! I didn’t make it or drink it (can’t touch the stuff any longer: migraines) but I laughed. Those of you who do…

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Mouse Melon Soup

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Maryland Grows

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Perhaps none of you reading this have yet had the problem of too many mouse melons, but if you grow them, you very well may (see my previous post on mouse melons for description of this vigorous plant). I recently…

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Melons for mice

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Maryland Grows

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Those of you who’ve been reading my blog entries for a while know that my favorite vegetable plant (that I only discovered last year) is Melothria scabra, the mouse melon or Mexican sour gherkin. Why do I like mouse melons…

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