I’m Craving Dill Pickles, I Buy The Tiny Ones At Sam’s Club, And They Are Imported From India…

@SHREKPage I would if I had a place to plant them. I did at one time, planted a pack of pickling cucumbers (they put on a lot more than regular cucumbers and they are small too) along side the deck and I put a mesh trellis for them to climb. Easy to water there and I could spot them easily and pick them without having to move leaves on the ground.

@cherokeepatti they do take up a bunch of space thats true

@SHREKPage When I lived out in the country I planted two packs, one in the garden and the other along the chain link fence. I had so many cucumbers I had to give some of them away. And I made a lot of pickles…polish, sweet, and bread & butter…and ate fresh ones every day and still had too many. Don’t have problems with powdery mildew when they grow on a fence

@cherokeepatti if they are healthy they do generally produce a LOT. I ended up doing sweet zucchini relish this year too

@SHREKPage I made “Pineapple” preserves one year using zucchini

@cherokeepatti That sounds really good!!

@SHREKPage I used to make dill pickles using a grape leaf in each jar, a clove of garlic, a cayenne pepper and a head of fresh dill…a spoon of salt, pack the cucumbers and hot water. They were so good they didn’t make it into winter, we’d open a jar and scarf them.

@cherokeepatti my mix is similar to that. fresh pickles really are good!!

@SHREKPage We used to buy Polish pickles in the 70’s and 80’s, they were an authentic brand and they stopped selling them. I’d sure like to know their recipe. I just used Mrs. Wages Polish pickle mix to make mine but they weren’t near as good as that brand they sold in grocery stores.

@cherokeepatti I grew up a farm kid with everything you can think of preserved and jarred.

@SHREKPage we did too on the farm.