La. garden yields yard-long ... cuculoupe? Sun Jul 9, 5:50 AM ET HOUMA, La. - They're a yard long and a good few inches across. The skin is waxy, sort of like a cucumber, but yellow and ridged like a canteloupe. A half dozen of them grew between the cucumbers and cantaloupes in a Houma home garden. "We call it a cuculoupe," Karen Dusenbery said. As good a name as any. "Science is strange sometimes," LSU AgCenter agent Barton Joffrion said after examining the whatsits. "You see crosses like that. What happens is they planted them close in proximity, and...