Normally we don’t grow pickling cucumbers, but my friend does, and she is swimming in cucumbers right now.  So I offered to pick and take home some cucumbers.  I traded her for dill seeds.

 

This is about three days worth of cucumbers, meaning that it took those vines about three days to grow cukes this big.  It probably takes longer, but they only get picked about every three days, so that’s my gauge.  

 

We made 17 pints of dill spears with this bucket of cucumbers.  We started picking at 9:00, got busy washing, cutting and canning and were finished by 1:30.  And now we have a new skill, and a bunch of great pickles.  

 

What a fun way to spend a summer day.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!