cool

[martin]

I bought some plants from messines market, thought they were peppers, but it seems they are cucumbers, so trying to find more about them (got 16 fruits at moment - time to book my next world cruise??) I found out where the expression "cool as a cucumber" comes from

so here it is-



There are two types of cucumbers common to the home gardener - pickling cucumbers and slicing cucumbers. The phrase "cool as a cucumber" is an apt one. Growing in a field on a hot summer day, the interior flesh is 20 degrees cooler than the outside air temperature