Tag: pickle

Harvest Asparagus

I harvest asparagus this fine morning. We have one established 25-foot row and 6 rows that are now 3 years old this season. They are producing skinny pencil guys for this first year of productive vegetables from them.

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This is an every other day chore and then of course there is the processing or delivery to the food bank or neighbors. I am looking forward to doing some asparagus pickling for us this year. Let us know if you have a great pickling recipe to try.

Picking Today

  • 6.4 pound green zuchinni giant

Picking today in the garden produced a winner for the biggest as the Mr. 6.4 lb green zucchini squash. He is sticking his head out of the middle bucket in this picture, a really big guy measuring 18″ long with a 5″ diameter. This is what happens when I put off picking for a couple of days. There is quite a few crookneck squashes in the bucket on the left. The bucket on the right is full of beets along with a single head of lettuce and eggplants.

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    relish making cucumbers
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    bread & butter slicers
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    dill pickle cucumbers

Also, harvested lots of cucumbers today, including big guys for relish making. Mediums to be sliced for bread and butter chips. Then good old dill pickle jar sizes. You can see that they are sorted by size. It is safe to say that pickling season has now begun.

I was pleased to see that the blackberries have begun to ripen. It looks like it will be a nice crop this year if the weather cooperates. It was a couple of cups of berries, which isn’t bad for the first day of picking.

The first group of jalapeno peppers was harvested today and the green peppers are slowly but surely increasing in size too.