Cucumbers growing on a plant just prior to harvest.
Gherkins are not a crop one encounters very often, but when we visited Ben Parle near Griffith in New South Wales on the ITLUS tour last January, we discovered that his father’s business is the sole supplier of this product to McDonald s in Australia.
A trailer load of small cucumbers on their way from the harvester to be transformed into gherkins.
Gherkins are really immature cucumbers, but a specific variety that can survive the pickling process. The cucumbers are grown to between 15 and 25 millimetres in diameter and then harvested.
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