It’s the last week in August and I’m struggling to keep up with some things in my garden. Last year I canned tomatoes madly about now, but I sure am NOT doing that this year. (Poor tomatoes. Stupid late blight.) I’m hearing various reports about how some of the local CSAs are doing and Farmers Markets. I am not getting calls from farmers with excess tomatoes like I did last year. (Everyone knows I will buy them if they are cheap because I’ll can them.)
I’m still overrun with cucumbers. Maybe two raised beds full of them was too much, huh? Live and learn! I’ve got a crock in the basement full of brine and cukes with one of those packages from Amway where you just add vinegar and water. Hopefully we’ll like the flavor. We are going to start another one with a different recipe now that I bought some dill weed. I need to put that on my list of stuff to grow next year.
One of the few things I still buy is dill relish, but I decided to try to make it myself this year. I used this recipe. Of course, I didn’t have dill seed but used a bunch of dill weed instead. It says to let it age for a month, so I won’t know for a while if we like it. I might try another recipe as insurance, still I still have too many cucumbers. (I’m getting about 10 a day!)