first time pickler

[Canesisters]

This weekend I'm going to make my very first batch of pickles from my very own cukecumbers! SO EXCITED!!! And pretty nervious too.
Question - how do you store your cukes till you have enough to make a big batch of pickles? Or, do you just have so many producing at once that a single picking will do it?

 

[w_r_ranch]

You can put them in the frig for a couple of days if you're expecting to harvest enough to do a single big batch.

I normally have enough to do single batches, although most years we do a number of small batches of different types of pickles (dill, bread & butter, salt, garlic, etc) so we have a variety & don't get sick of eating the same thing all the time.

 

[Canesisters]

Great thanks. I've got about a dozen in the fridge now (adding a couple every day, all week long) and I've been hoping they would stay fresh till I could get them going. Is that a single day's haul in that box!!! Oh my goodness! How many plants do you have?

 

[w_r_ranch]

About 20 vines total, that was 2 or 3 days worth.

 

[Slowngreen]

Good luck! Im a pickler too, I pickle eggs mainly but will be doing pickles this year.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Too bad you don't live close by, I would have fixed you up... here's todays' pickings





I'm in the process of cleaning up the garden and the cuke plants are coming out tomorrow... as are the last of the tomatoes.