Checked my cukes today. Thought I had a few ready to pick for pickles and whoa, 2 nice perfect mature cukes. I tried bush cukes for the first time and they have just exploded. The bush cukes are shorter and fatter, yummy. About ready to pick my first banana pepper. Happy 4th to all. This thread is my favorite place at FR.
We placed Haveaheart live traps for the visiting night critter. We believe it's an armadillo. Checked one trap this morning and it contained a turtle.
Swimming in the lake this weekend off the dock as it is not safe to take the pontoon out. Too many amateurs in town and the Water Patrol is licking their chops. Yesterday a local guy swerved his boat to miss a jet ski, fell out of his boat and was run over by another boater. It's getting nuts out there...
Glad to hear it. We have only had 3 1/2 cukes. The first one was a little one kinda misshapen, so I count it as a half. Then we had a big one that was hidden, so it was too big, but ok for cukes and onion fresh pickles. The next one was just right, and then we another kinda big one.
I wound up using one of those big klauson pickle containers, put in a lot of onion and red onion and pickling mixture. I let the mixture cool down so that the veggies wouldn’t wilt. Already almost half gone.
I am hoping for some zukes! Last year’s discovery was a sweet and spicy zuke pickle that I like better than cukes. It was more cruncy than any pickles I have ever made. I made them in spears, and shaved all the middle mushy seed area off and left the rind on. Thanks for the encouragement.