CUCUMBER

WOW!!!!!!! Harvest time again!!!!! This time we harvest cucumber... I guess almost everyone knows what cucumber is.... This is brief introduction of it...

The cucumber is a creeping vine that roots in the ground and grows up trellises or other supporting frames, wrapping around ribbing with thin, spiraling tendrils. The plant has large leaves that form a canopy over the fruit.

The fruit is roughly cylindrical, elongated, with tapered ends, and may be as large as 60 cm long and 10 cm in diameter. Cucumbers grown to be eaten fresh (called slicers) and those intended for pickling (called picklers) are similar. Cucumbers are mainly eaten in the unripe green form. The ripe yellow form normally becomes too bitter and sour. Cucumbers are usually over 90% water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumber

Although we harvest many cucumber but at the moment, the market price is quite cheap... only 40 cent per Kg.. usually it is not like that. The reason for such a cheap price is due to "flooding of cucumber" in the market... and competitive is very very high.

Below are the packing of the cucumber before send to the market. It is separate into Type A; Type B... Type A category is belongs to those with its appearance straight, elongated and look beautiful and smaller in size... while Type B .. can be varies with size and sometimes appear bigger.

Now looks at the health benefit of cucumber to human body:

**Cucumber is best natural diuretic known, secreting and promoting the flow of urine.
**Helps in kidney and urinary bladder disease.
**Liver disease
**Pancreatic disease

**The potassium content of cucumber makes it highly useful for conditions of high

and low blood pressure.
**Cucumber contains erepsin, the enzyme that helps to digest protein.
**The high silicon and sulphur content of the cucumber is said to promote the

growth of hair, especially when the juice of the cucumber is added to the juice of

carrot, lettuce and spinach.
**A mixture of cucumber juice with carrot juice is said to be beneficial for rheumatic

conditions resulting from excessive uric acid in the body.
**Cucumber juice is also valuable for helping diseases of the teeth, gums, especially

in cases of pyorrhea.
**The high mineral content of this vegetable also helps to prevent splitting of nails of

the fingers and toes.
**Cucumber, radish and bitter gourd are beneficial in diabetes.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Health_Benefits_of_Cucumber

Pumpkin

The word pumpkin originates from the word pepon, which is Greek for “large melon". The French adapted this word to pompon, which the British changed to pumpion and later American colonists changed that to the word we use today, "pumpkin"

Source taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin

Unbelievable, I saw this pumpkin in the market where my mom used to sell her vegetables and fruits. At first, I thought it was import or my mom bought it from others. Then, my mom told me that it come from our farm when I was doing my attachment di Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I take few photos of it... and luckily my brother snap few photos of it when the pumpkin attached to it stalk..

Pokok Cempedak

Cempedak, the smaller cousin of the well-known, jackfruit. It adopts the Malay name as it does not have an English name. It is a seasonal fruit native to southeast Asia.

Cempedak looks similar to the jackfruit except that it is much smaller in size but it is large in comparison to other fruits. It is also sweeter, stickier and with a strong odor when it is ripe.You will know when it is ripe as it will emit a strong odor that fills the room, similar to the durian. It will turn light green with dark brown spots appearing on several of the flattened studs. It is also slightly sticky when you touch it due to the secretion of latex through the rind.

Common Name: Cempedak
Vernacular Name: Chempedak
Scientific Name: Artocarpus champeden

Taken from: http://fruitspecies.blogspot.com/2008/09/cempedak.html

CORN Harvset

Just before I go to Kuala Lumpur, I am happy to see the corn that had been planted by my mom workers.. can be harvest... I ate the corn it is so sweet.. taste Yummy...! Then due to my work commitment I had to postpone to publish this corn..

Yellow sweet corn is a good source of lutein which is good for healthy vision and a healthy cardiovascular system. Corn also adds folate to our diets.
(http://nutrition.about.com/od/fruitsandvegetables/p/sweetcorn.htm)

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

Previously... we do plant Tomato.. This picture taken in last year... and at the moment (2009), there is no tomato in the farm. But very soon, may be we will restart again... to make our farm morebeautiful with various plants, vegetables and fruits. Because that is the main commercial products initially signing up the agreement with the Primary Resources Agriculture in Brunei.

The scientific name of the tomato is very comnplicated... and got many different name due to species. Solanum lycopersicum, syn. Lycopersicon lycopersicum & Lycopersicon esculentum.