Vera Hunt and Ivan Elliott have a knack for gardening, particularly when it comes to raising cucumbers.
The two friends, each 88, have gardened together for nine years and keep coming up with unusual cukes.
A couple of years ago they had one that was just shy of 22 inches and weighed 9 pounds.
This week they plucked another anomaly from their garden, a pair of cucumbers that grew piggy-backed on each other.
They are unsure what they will do with the strange-looking vegetable, but if it keeps, Vera said she’d like to enter it in the Allen County Fair, which starts a week from Saturday.
An alternative is the frying pan.
“That’s how I like them best — fried,” Vera said of cucumbers.
The two gardeners said they don’t do anything special.
“We get our seed at TLC in LaHarpe, and Ivan waters whenever the garden needs it,” Vera said.
They also keep their garden spruced up and free of weeds.
“I hoed some out there this morning,” Vera said Monday afternoon.
Quite a pickle… Unusual cucumbers grow together
