Harvest Days

Thankfully I am not dependent on fresh vegetables from our garden each evening for our dinner.

We live in California and we take full advantage of the myriad of farmers markets.

We are harvesting plenty of lemon cucumbers (they look like lemons but they taste like cucumbers) and banana peppers which I've been making into tasty cucumber salad.

And also zesty lemon cucumber pickles.

Our green bean bushes, which we have 6, are not really producing.

 

Pictured are the first handful of green beans I've picked which pretty much was all that was growing.

This is my first year growing green beans and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

We have flowers that do not then become beans.

 

I am willing to trade pickles for advice.

 

We Are Getting Pickled!

 

Remember last month I mentioned I was growing pickling cucumbers.

I'm finally getting enough  raw pickling cucumbers to process.



First I made some spears.

And then Jim ask that I make some slices because they are great on hamburgers.

I have been using Mrs. Wages Kosher Dill Pickle mix. I had to make a special trip to Walmart as my local Safeway and Bel Air did not carry the mix.  I am getting enough cucumbers for 4 pints at a time and I am using half a package of the mix with the suggested amounts of water and vinegar.

The spears are very zesty.

 Hopefully this weekend we will grill some hamburgers to try out the slices.