One of the biggest keys to success when replanting cucumbers in the summer is to select varieties that have a short seed-to-fruit maturity time. This will allow you the opportunity to harvest as many cucumbers as possible before the first frost. Varieties such as the National Pickling Cucumber...
Learn how to store cucumbers properly to keep them crunchy for salads, snack trays, and more. (And to avoid sad, soggy, spoiled cucumbers forevermore.)
An art as old as time, pickling spans across thousands of years, with different cultures each having mastered a version to call their own. Once born of the need to preserve food, pickles are now commercially made for their lip-smacking flavour. But in today’s context, we still find ourse...
It takes about three weeks in a jar for a whole cucumber to reach peak pickle using a vinegar solution and about four to six weeks in a fermenting crock with a salt-water brine. Making Things Interesting So far we know that we can preserve our cucumbers and give them a tart taste with...
Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) were domesticated in India, but are now grown globally. In the north, they’re grown as annual summer vegetables. They can be sliced and added to salads, or pickled in a sweet or tart brine with herbs to preserve them....
Tendersweet: rich orange, smooth skin; 6 inches long; cylindrical; sweet, tender, and nearly coreless; a good choice for cooking, canning, pickling, baking, and juicing; heirloom variety; 75 days to harvest; open-pollinated. Yellow carrots Amarillo Yellow: pale lemon-yellow root; bright yello...
Pickled carrots surprisingly tasty, and they’re an easy way to dress up any meal. Sometimes your CSA basket overflows with fresh carrots and there’s just no way to use them all in a week. Pickled carrots are a tasty way to preserve carrots, and they pair wonderfully with all manner ...
2 teaspoons celery salt you can use regular salt, but the celery salt adds to the flavor ½ cup water Instructions Place cucumbers and onions in a large stainless steel or glass bowl. Mix 1 cup of pickling/canning salt with 8 cups of cold water (double this as needed if doing a lar...
Yes. I could have given them away but by the time I realized I was in trouble it was too late. The cucumbers were getting a little soft. No one would want them. Right? So here are four ways to fight the plight of the cucumber explosion in your garden besides pickling, creating salsa...
Keep your cucmbers fresh before pickling. Closely related to melons and squash, the cucumber is a popular summertime crop, either to grow in the home garden or to use as fresh produce. Cucumbers are a popular addition to salads; however, the most popular preparation of cucumbers involve making...