Pickles

Finally there were enough cucumbers the right size at the same time to make pickles. I did them tonight; I got a pint of green cucumbers, a quart of green cucumbers, and a quart of lemon cucumbers. They all sealed--yay! I'm still hoping for a few more this month; there are still plenty of flowers on the plants. One of the lemon cucumber plants is even trying to climb right up the side of the apple tree. It's strange to look into the apple tree and see cucumbers hanging there.

I haven't decided yet whether to buy some pickling cukes from one of the farmers at the market. I'd much rather have home-pickled organic cucumbers than the ones from the big-box stores, but the pickling does take a lot of work and a lot of time, and I still have most of the asparagus pickles I made earlier this spring. I have to think about it and decide while I can still get cukes at the market. Hmm.