Cucumber History

Cucumber plants by itself advance in both abstemious and close environments, and about crave temperatures amid 60-90°F/15-33°C. For this reason, they are built-in to abounding regions of the world. In evolutionary terms, the aboriginal cucumbers were acceptable to accept originated in Western Asia (and conceivably added accurately in India) or locations of the Middle East. Cucumbers are mentioned in the fable of Gilgamesh—a Uruk baron who lived about 2500 BC in what is now Iraq and Kuwait. It was about 3,300 years after if cucumber agronomics advance to locations of Europe, including France. And it was not until the time of the European colonists that cucumbers assuredly appeared in North America in the 1500's.

Today, the states of Florida and California are able to accommodate U.S. consumers with beginning cucumbers for a lot of of the year (from March through November). Imported cucumbers from Mexico are frequently begin in advantage during the winter months of December, January, and February. In California alone, about 6,600 field are buried with slicing cucumber varieties and 4,400 with alkali cucumbers. Worldwide, China is by far the better ambassador of cucumbers, and provides about two-thirds of the all-around supply. Iran, Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Spain, Mexico, the Ukraine, Japan, Indonesia, and the U.S. all participate in the apple cucumber market, with an abnormally top amount of exports advancing from Iran, Mexico, and Spain. Annual assembly of cucumbers common is about 84 billion pounds.