The most recognizable cucumber-melon today is a snake melon. Often referred to as “ Armenian cucumbers ” by Americans, these slender muskmelons are often considered a specialty cucumber variety.

For something extraordinary and foreign, try the Armenian cucumber, also know descriptively as Yard Long cucumber. These fruits have smooth, pale skins and few seeds. Unlike other cucumbers, which ...

Armenian cucumbers "are from the cantaloupe family, but they taste like cucumbers; they don't taste like cantaloupes," Troyer said. One of her hottest sellers are her pickling cucumbers, she said.

It’s tomato season across the Sacramento region. At News Roots Farm in West Sacramento, though, juicy beefsteaks share territory with curvy Armenian cucumbers, Afghan chives known as gandana and ...