my cucs don’t normally do very well But this year they seem to of taken off, lots of flowers and I harvested about seven small cucumbers this morning. At this rate I don’t want them to get too big Since I will have so many it looks like.
Any good recipes for pickling? I didn’t grow pickling cucumbers but I’m thinking if I use the small ones and I don’t can them, just refrigerate them, they might be OK?
Are you wanting dill pickles or sweet pickles?
I made one batch this morning and combined a few recipes. Kroger use to sell spicy pickles that I liked so in a few jars I added black pepper corns and a dried hot pepper. Others I just used Dill and coriander. Then I made a batch with a garlic clove using the basic vinegar pickling recipe in all of them. I canned them ( knowing they will lose their crunch) because the shelf life is much longer than refrigerated pickles. The longest shelf life I have seen for refrigerated pickles is 3 months and there is no way I could eat all these pickles in 3 months.