Bur Gherkin?

[Worth1]

Bur Gherkin?

Anybody tried these things.
I'm growing some this year just for the heck of it.

http://www.worldcrops.org/crops/Maxixe.cfm

Worth

[veggie babe]

I have never heard of this veggie, sounds very interesting though. Keep us posted on your progress and send pictures. (That is unless you are like me and don’t have that skill down yet). It is really a strange looking plant.

Neva

[stormymater]

Looks like you'd better tame it in some way before trying to take a bite, YOW! Reminds me of a chayote-like squah I bought at the Compadre Foods market & brought home. Tee totally covered in thin but extremely shrp spines - never quite managed to figure out how to cook the darned thing... let us know how you do - bet it'll grow like nobody's bizness with only those beetles in keep it from covering your house!

[brokenbar]

My husband grows these and they make the best sweet pickles. The beauty seems to be that they all reach a certain specific size and then you have lots of one size to pickle. He also uses them for sweet pickle relish and he slices them into his hot carrot mixture. They stay very firm and uncooked, have an odd but not unpleasant taste. And yes...they are nurly looking little dudes. He says he is going to try some in his "secret" fermenting potion this year.

[Barbee]

Are you sure those aren't texas cockleburrs?

[Worth1]

They had an article in mother earth news on these things and they sell the seeds at Baker Creek.

I will pickle some and then stuff them with a hot pepper or maybe a cherry tomato.
I would look just wild on the pickle plate.
As long as you don’t let them mature the spines are soft.
Can you imagine these critters floating in a pot of stew, people would think “What the----“.
They have sprouted and I can’t wait to get going with all of the other stuff.

Worth

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Originally Posted by Worth1

They had an article in mother earth news on these things and they sell the seeds at Baker Creek.

I will pickle some and then stuff them with a hot pepper or maybe a cherry tomato.
I would look just wild on the pickle plate.
As long as you don’t let them mature the spines are soft.
Can you imagine these critters floating in a pot of stew, people would think “What the----“.
They have sprouted and I can’t wait to get going with all of the other stuff.

Worth

It would look like a pot of hedgehogs!

[oc tony]

I'd bet you'd get a lot of I ain't eating that s---.