Sweet Large Cucumber Pickle canning question
khandi
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questions about my zucchini, sweet dumpling & cucumbers...
Comments (11)The Sweet Dumpling squash I am just worried about it having flower buds even though the plant is so small still... For the cucumbers, I have two pots with 4 that germinated in one (which is the one in the photo) and 3 that germinated in the other. I was always planning in thinning it to two in each pot. I think I will let it grow a little more and thin to the healthiest ones. Bejay, both zucchinis are the same variety...just in different sized pots. At lay I hope they are the same! Be11me, the zucchini plant in the 30 gallon pot is the same pot that had my zucchini that was decimated by the aphids. That was a Costata Romanesco variety. For some reason it wouldn't grow past the first couple true leaves... the aphids got to it by the second week. The Tondo Scuro di Piacenza zucchini that are growing in those photos were fertilized with a pelleted fertilizer for tomatoes, bat guano, and a seaweed fertilizer... These grew to the size in those photos in about 15 days from germination. I was shocked at how fast they grew. I only had the pelleted tomato fertilizer for the CR zucchini plants that ended up not growing much after it got its first two true leaves ...then dying (one of them from the aphids.) So I guess they needed to be fertilized more and that is why they got stressed. I am growing new CR in different pots now..but they just germinated the other day....See MorePickling vs. Slice Cucumbers for pickles
Comments (6)Hi Donna - this is a fairly frequent question over on the Harvest forum - the forum for food preservation, canning, etc. - and most all the pickle makers agree that using pickling cucumbers rather than slicing varieties makes all the difference in the end quality. That and pickling them while fresh picked from the vine. The slicers have much more water in them than the pickling varieties do so they go mushy rather than staying firm and crisp as picklers do. Several discussions over there on favorite pickling varieties if interested. Dave...See MoreMy First Boston Pickling Cucumber! (Questions)
Comments (6)Thanks, everyone! Dad did eat it last night for a snack and said it did taste good. Joe, yes I am growing dill as well, but most of the people I talked to liked bread and butter pickles the most. I also have a bush slicing variety (Bushmaster) growing beside my pickling cuke plant. I'll take a picture later to show you. It's not real large, but hopefully to have some for slicing later in the season. This is my first year growing cucumbers and I think I'll grow them every year now! I'm going to make refrigerator pickles with them. Brad AKA Moonwolf...See MoreYet another sweet pickle question
Comments (4)On the 5th day, drain off all the water. Cut cucumbers into chunks. Make the syrup, pour over the cut up cucumbers. Then, each day for 3 more days, pour off the syrup, bring syrup with the spice bag to a boil and pour back over the chunks of cucumbers. On the 4th day of the syrup, drain off, boil, pack pickles into jars, pour over the hot syrup, seal jars, and process in the BWB. It is 3 days. The 4th day as you heat the syrup, you pack the pickles in the jars and can them....See Morekhandi
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