Cucumis sativus 🥒🥒: Dry season farming of cucumber 🥒 and it's health benefits

From my previous post for the pasy couple of days now, i have been more invested and focused on making the best use of a small water body close to my fato make dry season farming possible for myself.

Waiting to farm after the dry season can be a very boring wait in a way so the best thing I felt like doing is to go into a bit of irrigation system of farming 🧺 to keep myself busy before the rain 🌧️ comes again

I have focused on some few crops like okra which I have talked about here https://hive.blog/hive-150280/@zion-francis/okra-abelmoschus-esculentus-a-little-water-retention-experiment-on-a-farm

This is my small cucumber 🥒 farm which is 4weeks old presently

There is actually an interesting back story as to why I chose to plant cucumber 🥒 even though I have never tasted it in my entire existence 😭. Few weeks ago a friend bought some of this fruit from the market and offered me one and I subtly rejected it telling him I don't eat cucumber 🥒 and then for some reasons he started going on and on about it and how that it taste good and all. Well I didn't bulge but was smiling and saying no to the cucumber 🥒. Then he went on to talk about some of its health benefits...

First thing he said to me was that it helps to manage someone's blood sugar, I didn't see that coming and he could see the surprise on my face so he continued by telling me that cucumber 🥒 has high level of vitamin k which strengthen the bone, and it also helps the body in terms of hydration. Mind you my friend is a doctor
The hydration part was one I was keen on reason been that it's dry season and we tend to get easily dehydrated.

Although he wasn't able to convince immediately to eat it as I am not much of a foodie 😞, but i was convinced enough to plant it in my farm 😁😁

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So here I am six weeks in having a cucumber 🥒 farm to take care of. Maybe just maybe my first taste of cucumber 🥒 will be from my own farm😄

Thank you guys for taking out time to read this post. Have a great week 💝