Alphabet-shaped cucumbers grow in Slater

Friday, July 6, 2012

By MAGGIE MENDERSKI/Staff Writer

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Francis Bemboon of Slater poses with his homegrown cucumbers.
(Maggie Menderski/Staff Writer)

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While Francis Bemboon of Slater has always grown onions and radishes, this year his cucumbers took an interesting turn.

The yard long cucumber seeds produced an array of extreme shapes and sizes in his 30- by- 60 foot garden. Bemboon's cucumbers mimic the letters S, C and O and have grown up to 30 inches long.

"It's a crowded garden," he said.

Bemboon still has several seeds left, and intends to grow the bizarre-shaped cucumbers next year, too.

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Nice!

-- Posted by luvthoseowls on Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 1:13 PM

Yeah- that's what I want to know! Don't tell us about alphabet-shaped cucumbers and then not show them to us! LOL

-- Posted by luvthoseowls on Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 11:13 AM

Response by Eric Crump/Editor:

There you go!

Okay, so where is a picture of the cucumber letters?

-- Posted by Pragmatist on Fri, Jul 6, 2012, at 10:43 AM

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