Pickling is a good way to preserve foods, as is canning, drying, freezing,salt or sugar curing, smoking etc. Naturally certain foods are used in certain ways, usually time -tested. For cucumbers, besides pickles, there is also putting them into soups, then freezing, or even dehydration. If the...
Been planting tomatoes and peppers. Still have another row of tomatoes to do. And still have cucumbers, pumpkins, okra and some other stuff left to plant! Also planted more squash today. Plus the chickens, ducks, rabbits, and sheep have all been fed and watered. I took a wee break, now it's back...
Planted corn, pole beans, Swiss chard, turnips, and the rest of the bok choy. I'm hoping to get the tomato plants and peppers put in first thing in the am.
I have sprouts! Only planted the seeds two days ago in the green houses, and they are sprouting already! :D. Love it! The bees are happily buzzing in their new hive, the animals are doing well, stuff is growing, and life is good!
Going to try and get the rest of the garden tilled and planted, or at least weeded! I'm off all weekend, so I'll be working from can til cain't. Only difference is, if it's something you enjoy, it ain't work!
Here's some pics!
my first pepper!
tomato plants waiting to go in.
cabbages
close up of a cabbage. That's my foot in the corner. They are HUGE!
The cabbage, not my feet! :D
Thunder storms and pouring rain for two days now. I won't be off again until the weekend. Maybe it'll be dry enough to get in the garden and actually do something by then.
It's been raining every two days here. So the garden hasn't dried out enough to get the rest tilled. However, I'm going to plant the herbs and such in pots. Maybe even some of the other veggies! Where there's a will, there's a way!