Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening show today's questions coming from longtime

listener Phil Koster what's going on Phil thank you so much for all your suggestions

he always sends me these amazing suggestions for the podcast.

So this one is going to be talking about some strange fruits

or vegetables that you've probably never heard of,

mostly because they're grown in regions that many of us don't live in or because they're hard to transport, store, or preserve.

So let's go ahead and get into it. We've got a lot to cover on this one.

First of all, you've got the Mexican Gherkins, also known, I believe, as the cucumellons.

So that has been for some reason one of the most popular little fruits

this year.

I would say it's like 2018's gardening fruit of the year,

at least based on what I've been seeing other people grow on

Instagram or YouTube etc.

All my friends have cucumelons in the garden.

So they look like tiny little water mounds. You can hold like maybe 10 of them in your hand.

They have this audible crunch when you bite into them and they've just been so popular. I think because they look kind of cute and they have that been so popular.

I think because they look kind of cute and they have that nice little crunch.

But actually this is one of the more accessible ones on the list just because so many people

have grown them.

So Mexican, sour, Gerkin, aka the cucummelon. Next one on our list is

the duty, kind of a funny name there, right? The duty. I'm growing the duty this year guys. It is also known by the English

name of Kalabash. It is very popular in like a Chinese stir-fry and a curry. In China there is a type called the

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