After six days fermenting in a salt brine with garlic and dill my cucumber pickles were done. As you can see, they’ve lost they’re bright green color and have turned a sort of olive. I had been tasting them almost daily since I put them in the brine, and they’d reached just the point doneness […]
Wouldn’t you know it. Just when I was thinking we might never see ripe cucumbers I ran across a bunch of them hiding in the garden. Cucumbers can be sneaky devils. They don’t make a sound. They hide amongst the foliage and if you don’t look for them carefully, you won’t see them until they’re […]
The cucumbers are starting to take flight. Time to get them growing vertically. Two varieties were planted in a long line with patty pan squash at the far end. Growing them up a trellis is the only way to manage them. Our trellis is constructed of 1 1/2-inch PVC pipe cut to fit. The pipe […]
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