If you thought pickling cucumbers, sometimes referred to as picklers, were just for those who make bushels of homemade pickles, you are mistaken. Young pickling cucumbers are crisp and tender making them the ideal cucumber for slicing or serving in salads. These little beauties grow quickly and bear fruit in as little as 55 days ...
Backyard gardens are becoming more and more popular in urban areas, as the price of fresh fruits and vegetables rise. Container gardening makes it possible for those who do not have the space to create a full garden to grow their own fresh vegetables. Cucumbers are a hardy plant that do well when grown ...
Although making brined pickled cucumbers takes some time, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at that great ‘sitting on the front porch’ summertime flavor. Use the excess cucumbers from the vegetable garden, or fresh store bought cucumbers to brine into pickles. Start off by choosing the best looking cucumbers without dents, wrinkles, odd shapes and free from ...
With the holidays fast approaching, family holiday dinner menus are being planned all over the country and the world. No holiday meal is complete without this basic, yet beautiful and delicious dish on the table. In this article, I will teach you how to make a beautiful and delicious tossed salad. Start with the lettuce, ...
Cucumbers are the quintessential summer vegetable that is easy to grow, delicious to eat, and keeps on producing from June clear until fall’s first freeze. Unfortunately, once the cold snap hits, cucumber growing season is over for good, leaving gardeners with a bumper crop of cucumbers that need to be preserved before they turn to ...
Why is a gardener who has grown cucumbers successfully for many years suddenly faced with bitter fruit? The answer is not easy but here are a few possibilities. Wild cucumbers contain a number of compounds in them which make them extremely bitter. These materials are called cucurbitacins which occur in the leaves, stems and roots ...
If you want to create a good dill pickle, you need to start with a few ingredients not found in your local grocery store. You’ll need a head of dill that is slightly under ripe. You need to pick the dill head when it has turned green. Not when there is pollen on the head ...
Don’t be fooled by the bush when connected with a cucumber pickle plant. What they lack in height, they make up for in pickles. If you have a small garden, then bush cucumber are the variety to grow. Bush cucumbers can reach up to 3 feet in diameter and the ripe fruits measure 4 to ...
There is a vegetable that is green, tasty, and offers some health benefits. This vegetable is called the cucumber it is long and green and can be brought all over the world. The cucumber can be used as food, and also has a moisturizer for your face and skin. Cucumbers are very delicious when eaten ...
There are a number of cucumbers that are an heirloom variety. Some of them include Armenian, Boston Pickling Improved, Homemade Pickles, Muncher, Miniature White, and Straight Eight. Heirloom cucumbers will save you money also. By saving several of the ripened fruits, you can remove the seeds, wash the seeds to remove the pulp, store them ...
