We got a nice 3/4” rain shower in Central Missouri earlier this week. Everything in my garden is doing well. Ate the first ripe tomato yesterday. Cucumbers are now making faster than we can eat them which means pickle-making time is just around the corner. First planting sweet corn is pollinating so it won’t be long for that either. I still have three row of taters to dig. Might get one of those done this weekend.
Mrs. Augie runs the zukes through her food processor and puts the moosh into ziplock bags and freezes it. Works great for making bread. Can also be seasoned and fried, used in soups etc.
We’ve been harvesting cukes for quite a while now. This is our first good crop of cukes since 2010. We had no luck in 2011 just grew a little, wilted and died, and 2012 was the drought and heat. Since I still have relish and bread and butter pickles from 2010, I am just making dill pickles this year.
I am doing spears, whole pickles, and slices for burgers. These can be made into sweet pickles by adding sugar to the jar, or even make relish after the fact using a food processor, if I should need to before next year.