Homegrown Pickles

Dill fresh from the herb garden

Grape leaves from our mountain grape vines and garlic peeled, cayenne peppers and dill heads.

A nice harvest of pickling cukes. 

Water bath

Fermenting Food

African Daisy 

The harvest: Pickling Cucumbers and Purple Pole Beans

Wild fermentation

Pickling cucumbers in hot water bath

Grape leaves keep the pickles crisp

Cucumbers chilling in ice bath before processing for ten minutes.

Finished product

Homemade Dill Pickles

Pickling cucumbers chillin'

Garden Growth

3 Sisters:



Winter Squash:

Seedlings and Chicken Run

Lemon Cucumber seedling with it's trellis:
hoping to make some good pickles this year.

The big harvests are just around the corner.

many silvery fir tree tomatoes in today's harvest wagon:

Some interesting wildflowers on the walk down to the mailbox.

working weekends

More experimenting with trellises and tee-pees have brought me to decide to build about twelve to fourteen tee=pees and just three pieces of cattle fencing will make a good trellis between the organic bush beans and pole beans and the organic lemon cucumbers. It will be interesting to see how it holds up with wet foliage. Maybe I'll put a support stake in the middles. So far I accomplished my goal of a zero dollar budget on supports.