t-shaped cucumbers are for sissies, don’t worry, these Israeli crop growers kept you in mind by growing star-shaped cucumber as well.Grown at the Israeli agricultural town of Ein-Yahav, the cucumbers’ growing technique is kept under wraps by the farmers (but we’re pretty sure it’s some sort of mold-based method, which has been used in Japan to grow square watermelons.)
Ein Yahav is located in the Arava region of southern Israel. The dry desert environment produces some of Israel’s best produce, including cucumbers, peppers, watermelon and many other crops.
“We’re planning more shapes and applying the same shapes to other types of cucumbers,” agronomist Rami Sade excitedly says. “We’ve been growing them for three months,” says Sade. “There’s high demand for these cucumbers.”
Sade says the unique technology was brought to Israel from Spain and that these delicious green decorations are already available in supermarkets in Israel and Europe.
But since they’re only grown in small quantities, they are still hard to find: “For the moment, we grow several hundred kilograms per week, which is not much.”
Sade argues that since this is a specialty product, the cucumbers will cost more than your average batch and will be sold in packages of four.
