La. garden yields yard-long ... cuculoupe?

July 11, 2006

(AP) -- They're a yard long and a good few inches across. The skin is waxy, sort of like a cucumber, but yellow and ridged like a canteloupe. A half dozen of them grew between the cucumbers and cantaloupes in a Houma home garden.

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