Mini Cucumbers and Long English Cucumbers.
What’s the difference?
Long English Cucumbers are considered the classic Cucumber, whereas Mini Cucumbers look the same as Long English – just in a miniature, snackable form!
The best way to store Cucumbers and keep them fresh is by placing them in your fridge, preferably in a crisper without any other fruits. Although putting them in the fridge will keep your Cucumbers from going bad, it is important to note that the flavor may change.
It is also very important to keep your Cucumbers in their vacuum-sealed plastic wrapping until you are going to eat them. Since Cucumbers are made up of over 90% water, the moisture in a Cucumber needs to be retained to keep it from going limp and rotting.
By keeping the plastic wrapping on your Cucumber, you are helping it retain its water content, and thus are keeping it fresher longer!
👨🌾🥒Cucumbers, a lifetime of history.⏳️🥒
The cucumber originates from South Asia, but now grows on most continents, as many different types of cucumber are traded on the global market. Cultivated for at least 3,000 years, the cucumber originated from India, where a great many varieties have been observed, along with its closest living relative, Cucumis hystrix. It was probably introduced to Europe by the Greeks or Romans. Records of cucumber cultivation appear in France in the 9th century, England in the 14th century, and in North America by the mid-16th century
Charlemagne had cucumbers grown in his gardens in the 8th/9th century. They were reportedly introduced into England in the early 14th century, lost, then reintroduced approximately 250 years later. The Spaniards (through the Italian Christopher Columbus) brought cucumbers to Haiti in 1494. In 1535, Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, found "very great cucumbers" grown on the site of what is now Montreal.
Throughout the 16th century, European trappers, traders, bison hunters, and explorers bartered for the products of American Indian agriculture. The tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains learned from the Spanish how to grow European crops. The farmers on the Great Plains included the Mandan and Abenaki. They obtained cucumbers and watermelons from the Spanish, and added them to the crops they were already growing, including several varieties of corn and beans, pumpkins, squash, and gourd plants. The Iroquois were also growing them when the first Europeans visited them.
Fast forward to modern times.
In 2019, world production of cucumbers and gherkins was 88 million tonnes, led by China with 80% of the total.
👨🌾 Happy Monday Everyone!🍅
👨🌾 Coming soon to your friendly neighborhood market! 🍅
Beefsteak tomatoes, aptly named for their large size and meaty texture, have a classic tomato flavour.
However, depending upon the variety, they can also be sweet to the taste. They are heavy, reaching weights as high as 4 pounds, and they range in colour from pink, to vibrant red, to orange.
Yours will be ready very soon!👨🌾🍅
👨🌾 The king of tomatoes 🍅
A taste of things to come. Coming soon to your supermarket near you!
Red Beefsteak tomatoes are large and meaty with lots of juice, making them ideal to use as a base for fresh sauces and dips.
Have you ever seen a 1lb tomato?
Red Beefsteak’s mild flavour makes them the perfect complement to any dish, without being too overpowering.
They make a great addition to your classic hamburger or BLT, and can even hold their own as a patty substitute.👨🌾🍅
👨🌾 Fun facts about Tomatoes 🍅
Tomatoes are juicy fruit that's usually red, and grows on a vine or shrub.
It's considered a fruit because it has seeds and develops from the ovary, or female reproductive organ, of the plant.
Tomatoes come in different colours, shapes and sizes, and they're found in many foods, such as sauces, salsas, and salads.
Try our Elmira's Own Tomatoes soon, and enjoy the fresh flavour in every bite. 👨🌾🍅
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On the vine cherry tomatoes are uniform in colour and size, with a high sugar to acid ratio.
Sold attached to their stems, they will continue to ripen in storage.
Each tomato is round and red with a sweet tomato flavour.
Try for yourself and taste the difference! 👨🌾🍅
👨🌾Our Amazing Cherry on the Vine Tomatoes are here🍅!
Sustainably grown until perfectly ripe, Cherry On The Vine Tomatoes are vine ripened to guarantee freshness and a natural sweet flavour.
Eaten right off the vine or cooked, these irresistible bite sized beauties are a great addition to any snack or meal.
Indulge in one of the world's finest Tomatoes providing an unforgettable flavour experience.
Characteristics:
FIRM, RICH RED IN COLOUR, VERSATILE, VINE RIPENED
Benefits:
HIGH IN LYCOPENE, VITAMIN A & VITAMIN C, GOOD SOURCE OF FIBER, HIGH IN ANTIOXIDANTS
Flavour:
CANDY LIKE SWEETNESS, JUICY, CRISP BITE
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👨🌾 Have a few tomatoes a day, it will keep the doctor away!🍅
Tomatoes are loaded with a substance called lycopene. It gives them their bright red colour and helps protect them from the ultraviolet rays of the sun.
In much the same way, it can help protect your cells from sunlight damage as well.
Tomatoes also have potassium, vitamins B and E, and other nutrients.
Consumption of tomatoes will provide anti inflammatory properties and thus, it can be really beneficial for overall health of the body and brain.
Tomatoes are a good source of potassium and is linked with lowering the elevated blood pressure in the body. Thus, preventing cardiovascular diseases. 👨🌾🍅
👨🌾 Tomatoes...Vegetables or Fruit?🍅❓
Tomatoes are fruits that are considered vegetables by nutritionists. Botanically, a fruit is a ripened flower ovary and contains seeds.
Tomatoes, plums, zucchinis, and melons are all edible fruits, but things like maple “helicopters” and floating dandelion puffs are fruits too.
For some reason, people got hung up on tomatoes, but the “fruit or vegetable” question could also work for any vegetable with seeds.
Now, nutritionally, the term “fruit” is used to describe sweet and fleshy botanical fruits, and “vegetable” is used to indicate a wide variety of plant parts that are not so high in fructose.
In many cultures, vegetables tend to be served as part of the main dish or side, whereas sweet fruits are typically snacks or desserts.
Thus, roots, tubers, stems, flower buds, leaves, and certain botanical fruits, including green beans, pumpkins, and of course tomatoes, are all considered vegetables by nutritionists.
There is no hard and fast rule that clearly designates a botanical fruit as a vegetable, but, given that tomatoes are generally not used in desserts and are closely related to other fruit vegetables (e.g., eggplants and peppers), it is not too counterintuitive for tomatoes to be classified as vegetables.👨🌾🍅
👨🌾 Coming soon, from our farm to your family table: Beefsteak Tomatoes. 🍅
Beefsteak tomatoes are large, juicy tomatoes perfect for eating fresh from the harvest. Beefsteaks are typically wide tomatoes, but the more round types have a sweeter flavour.
A beef tomato or beefsteak tomato is one of the largest varieties of cultivated tomatoes, some weighing 450 grams or more.
Most are pink or red with numerous small seed compartments distributed throughout the fruit, sometimes displaying pronounced ribbing similar to ancient pre Columbian tomato cultivars. 👨🌾🍅
👨🌾 Did you know the average Canadian eats only one to two servings of vegetables per day?🍅
This is around five times below the recommended amount?
To maintain proper health, men should eat up to nine servings per day, while women are encouraged to have at least seven daily servings.
And it’s the veggie’s unique phytochemicals that promote our good health.
Eating fresh fruits and vegetables every day is one of the most important things you can do for your health.
Research continues to show that many essential nutrients in fresh produce may protect you from cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, and they also give you more energy, help reduce weight gain and may even reduce the effects of aging.
Phytochemicals are powerful food factors that elicit profound effects on human health maintenance and disease prevention. Usually related to plant pigments, they are the reason we promote eating your colours.
Yellow, orange, red, green and purple fruits and vegetables generally contain the most phytochemicals, with more than 900 found in plant foods.
Once you cook produce, you quickly lose the beneficial qualities. If you want to cook your veggies lightly sauté or steam them you want to keep them crispy and crunchy. Once veggies lose their crunch, they have also lost their nutritional value.
Gardening not only provides you with fresh fruits and vegetables, it also encourages you to eat them.
Once you are blessed with a bushel basket of Elmira's Own Tomatoes, you will have newfound interest in finding recipes for tomatoes.
What’s more, picking fresh produce from your garden is a great way to get children to eat fruits and vegetables.👨🌾🍅
