Above: An Indian bitter melon is sliced, prior to salting. Like its cucumber and melon relatives, bitter melon grows as an annual vine, and the seeds should be sown after all danger of frost has ...

Meet kachri, Rajasthan’s wild mini watermelon — tiny in size, mighty in flavour, and a secret ingredient in the desert’s most ...

Again and again Charles Darwin found inspiration in the cucumber and its fellow cucurbits ... Then he noted the diversification of marrow, gourd and melon fruit forms under agricultural selection ...

Ripe melons shouldn’t need any extra sweetening but use lemon or lime juice to bring out their sweetness if necessary. Mint, ginger, pear, cucumber, cured ham, strawberries and raspberries each ...

Dice the flesh and mix it into a savoury or sweet salad. For savoury dishes, combine with kiwano cucumber and melon; for sweet dishes, mix it with other melons and delicate-flavoured fruit.