Hi all, greetings from west Michigan. Picking broccoli, cukes, no tomatoes ripe yet, cherries soon. Waiting on second crop radishes and lettuce. Put up a half gallon of pickles today, first ones. Also eating our second helping of shishito peppers. Fast sautéed with a little olive oil and then topped with some cheese. They are really tasty. It’s our first year growing them. Also picked my first banana pepper. Always take a nice big inhale of that first one I pick. I’ve been putting up small bags of chopped up green onions through the foodsaver and then freezing them. I tried that last year with 2 small bags and they come through the freezer pretty good. no frost with the foodsaver and I usually use them for soups or fried rice anyway. Yes green onions are cheap in the store but I have them now and they don’t take up any room in the freezer. Zucchini and summer squash almost ready to pick. We like them on the grill sliced in half, not grilled very long with still a little crunch. Hope everyone has a great weekend.
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I like to do stuff like that - green onions, spinach whatever. Makes it easy to do a quick soup or stir fry.
Well, if you consider that what you actually have is “organic” green onions, the savings is a bit more and usually the taste is even better when it’s home grown, put up quickly, and has more nutrients to boot.
My first year to successfully grow cucumbers. They are weighing in from 1.5-2+ pounds. They’re huge! I’m making my first (attempt) batch of sweet relish this weekend. Will try some pickles and onions with the next batch. I only put one plant in the ground and it went wild! The soil at our new place is pretty good. I guess it used to be a diary farm. Plants are loving my garden!