Simple pleasures for a gardener
Wow, this is my 500th post! One simple pleasure: running your fingers thru a container of dried beans from the garden. And shelling them first, too! Missing a couple cucumbers […]
Tag Archives: cucumbers
A good taste of summer, in the winter!
I don’t often post recipes here, cos I don’t think I make many things that are so unusual. But several people I know have asked me how to make freezer […]
Rambling along in the garden on a wonderful day
Any day you can eat veggies from your garden is a good day. My garden is small, but plants love it here, so they usually get big and produce well. […]
Garden going wild!
The garden is doing amazing stuff. I had posted before that I had a garden mystery: squash coming up where my cucumbers (only!) were supposed to be, squash that I […]
Gardening adventures
Or maybe I should just call them gardening misadventures. I planted two kinds of cucumber seeds under a big bamboo teepee: some straight 8’s and some pickling cukes. I planted […]
The beginning of the garden
I had a guy till up a bigger area cos our garden is growing. It doesn’t have anywhere to go more than this, so we will make good use of […]
Freezer pickles, yea, really
My husband’s old grandmother, the lady who taught me the small amount I know about canning, used to make a thing called freezer pickles. They weren’t canned, not even cooked, […]
Maybe I need a bigger pickin’ basket
It was a bounty this morning. It was a little dicey picking the little sugar baby tomatoes which are right next to the black eyed peas, with the yellow jackets […]
We get by with a little help from our friends
My tomatoes have normally grown to 7′. This year we’re successfully growing cucumbers: so successfully that they have also reached 7′. And some have come around the corner of […]
How to spend a hot summer day
She knows to stay downstairs, cos the upstairs is much warmer in a long skinny house that has the long side facing east. We have a heat advisory today, […]
