Andromeda Galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy (/Ã¦nËdrÉmáµ»dÉ/), also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224, is a spiral galaxy approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light-years) from Earth. It is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way and was often referred to as the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts.
Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe. Slicing cucumbers are smooth skinned, and mostly are a rich dark green. Their skin is thick, their flesh is soft. True to their name, they slice up beautifully and make wonderful additions to garden salads.
They may be picked when they are no more than 2 inches long for pickles, 4 to 6 inches long for dills and 6 to 8 inches long for slicing varieties. A cucumber is of highest quality when it is uniformly green, firm and crisp. The large, burpless cucumbers should be 1 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter and up to 10 inches long.here are two types of cucumbers common to the home gardener-pickling cucumbers and slicing cucumbers. The phrase cool as a cucumber is an apt one. Growing in a field on a hot summer day, the interior flesh is 20 degrees cooler than the outside air temperature.