Gotta have a little bottle of hot peppers on the table to sprinkle the juice on collard and turnip greens, too. My dad bottled his own.
Just added lots of cukes, yellow (summer) squash, more tomato and bell peppers to the garden this morning. Onion sets going in tomorrow. Everything is looking good.
Your dad is a wise man, he was getting vitamin C, into you and you did not know it.
I envy you, you are planting my garden at the wrong address.
When you have a jar of pickles or peppers that please you, try pouring the left over fluid into a small sauce pan, bring to a heat, don’t boil and add the vegetables you have on hand and like to eat raw, fill the pickle jar with the vegetables and pour the fluid over them, when cool, refrigerate them.
A cheap way to get pickles.
For years I kept a bottle of sweet dill pickles going, when the pickles were eaten, I replaced them with sliced onions.
You lucky Lady you! I have to wait till mid May to start serious gardening... in fact it's snowing right now, and we are 'sposed to get 6 or more inches tonight! I can't wait for Spring to burst up here!