Squash Still and Pickles.

Squash and cucumbers slowed down a bit this week, we were very dry.  Raining cats and dogs right now, so we will see if they keep making.  I am making mint dill pickles.  Here is my recipe.

Gather ingrediants

grind mint in 1 C sugar

dissolve in 1 C vinegar

Clean, cap and slice pickles adding garlic,turmeric and dill

Pour vinegar and 2 c of water over cucumbers and place in refrigerator.

 

Cucumber Relish

This is my cucumber relish, marinating in the vinegar and spice overnight and will be processed in a hot water bath in the morning.  This is the recipe for cucumber relish in the Blue Book.  Except I added mint ground with some of the sugar, fresh turmeric and dill in the vinegar, along with 2 Tablespoons of the pickle spice from the food coop (which is essentially the spice asked for in the Blue Book recipe).  The vegetables include 8 medium cucumbers, 2 red peppers and 2 green peppers, 1 onion and about 4 cloves of garlic.

Green Beans

Green beans are coming on.  We grow Slenderettes, and this year added Maxibel which is also a long slender bean.  

and Cucumbers

 

 

Second picking of squash and first of cucumbers.

These little cucumbers are tasty with a real nutty flavor.  I made an oriental salad out of the big ones sliced, and occidental pickles out of the small ones cut length wise. 

Here comes the squash!

First harvest 2018

Summer squash bed

 

 

Young basil plamts went in where lettuce came out

Young tomato bed

Bean Field

Here are our rows of beans along with our rows prepped for adding our peppers.  We will finish out the garden with winter squash which I am planting later this year attempting to avoid the squash borer egg laying. 

Tatsoi

I found a crop of Tatsoi in the weeds.  The first planting of chinese cabbage, planted on 4/15, failed; but this second planting did better.  Probably was planted a couple of weeks later.  There is a bug in the spring that loves to eat on the green, which really doesn't bother it in the fall.  This really is a better fall crop.

How's your garden growing?

Mine was growing in seedling pots till this weekend.

David made the rows

Added horse manure

I planted the tomatoes.  Peppers went into the middle garden but no photos yet

Also put in two rows or okra seeds around the peas which are almost done.

Cucumbers coming along, garlic almost ready!!!

Summer squash bed looking good.