2025 gardens

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

What do you do to keep the slices from getting rubbery in storage? Whole cukes hold up OK, but if I do sliced ones they don't stay crisp. The cukes that I don't see until they're oversized get made into relish.
I'll can beans, but not pickle them. Tried it once, didn't like the result.

Wife uses pickle crisp to make em crispier. Its a lime of some sort, soakem in it for a bit then rinse em off. Can't remember if it was before pickling or after but I'd guess before. I can ask her if you like.

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

I planted a fall garden with snaps, okra spinach. Planted the snaps two days before a ton of rain came in they were up in 4 days from planting. So was the Okra. Snapes are taking off okra is hanging there for now.

As for epsom salts I have used it extensively in our garden. I go to Dollar genearl and get the 3-4# bag. I use about a 1/2 teaspoon per plant every 2-3 weeks. First year we used it on okra and clemson spineless got to be almost 8ft tall. WOW... Pretty much everything liked it best we can tell.