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Cucumbers are an absolute waste to add to soup.

Got a cucumber glut? Don't let them go to waste! Slice 'em up & pop in a jar with vinegar, sugar, salt, and dill for easy refrigerator pickles.
Amazing fact: Cleopatra reportedly believed her diet of pickles was a secret to her beauty!
#pickling #cucumbers #foodwaste #preserving #kitchentips

My aunt grows #lemonCucumbers in her backyard. I had never heard of them.

A beautiful day here today, cool, sunny and dry. A perfect time to start the butternut squash harvest. Haven't counted anything yet but there's about 75 pounds (34 kilos) sitting there waiting to get picked up. Still over half of the area yet to clear. Chopping up vines and weeds is filling up compost bin nicely.
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#compost
#Cucumbers
@gardening

Fresh #salad with #lettuce * #sorrel * #cucumbers & #tomatoes from our gardens. #Eggs are from a farmer friend who lives 5 minutes drive away
No ingredients were bought to make this simple salad

It was a cool, overcast morning and perfect conditions for BeetBear and I to clear out the cucumber patch. We managed three final cukes and everything else went to the compost pile, which, in a way, is another harvest, adding to the compost for next season. Next up: We've got to figure out where to store all those butternut squash! Now going to pick more raspberries.
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#zone6b
#BeetBear
#compost
#Cucumbers
@gardening

Whatever today was... Saturday's harvest. It's funny how the vegetables can hide even when they are brightly colored. I also picked a honeydew melon later.

Thursday's harvest from the garden. Lots of tomatoes, about 27 lbs or 12 kg total. It made about 6 quarts/liters of sauce after roasting them.

One of the cucumber plants, like the biblical Jonah's gourd, quickly wilted within a little more than a day. Jonah may not have been aware of cucumber wilt, but I have had some experience. My suspicion is that the days are numbered (and low numbers at that) for the remaining plants. I removed the wilted plant and am vigilantly watching the others for signs of wilt (though I fully expect to start seeing the signs soon).

Today's harvest is the normal things plus a few tomatillo, and a watermelon with some taste.

Just starting to slice the watermelon with the knife and it pops and splits open halfway. Too much water but it's hot and dry so not watering is not an option if you want vines that are alive. It tastes good and any mid-westerner would declare it better than nothing and something folksy. ;)

An overview photo of some of the garden too.

Harvest for August 3rd and 4th.

Found a big crookneck squash today, fewer beans, a few zucchini, a couple of cucumbers, and some tomatoes.

I decided to try to grow some cucumbers (National Pickling) in the mint bed along the alley, as it receives more sun than most of my garden. I started the plants from seed, then transplanted, adding a rather old metal trellis propped up with some equally old garden stakes. And the cucumber plants have grown up and over the mint, and I am beginning to harvest cucumbers.

Recent harvested things from the garden.

Pulled a couple of eggplants out today, they were wilting from unknown, both on the north ends of their different beds so maybe just too wet or perfect conditions for whatever they have. They're on the burn pile now and I treated the area and other eggplants with Soil Blast.

Lots of beans but 5 times as many bean flowers.

Today's harvest from the garden, minus any zucchini because I didn't spend much time looking. Picked the largest eggplants and a ones that were on a dying stalk, 2 cucumbers, 2 yellow crooknecks, and 580 grams / 20 ounces of runner beans.

Catching up on garden things. Skipped some days of picking and didn't take a photo of buckets full of tomatoes or eggplants. So here's Sunday, Saturday, Thursday, and Wednesday's harvest.

I picked all the Red Marconi peppers that were susceptible to sunburn plus they were as ripe as they'd get anyway. There were a couple of cucumbers too. Too busy/lazy Monday to pick anything.

This month's peep into the greenhouse shows plenty of lovely ripe tomatoes. For an unheated greenhouse in northern England that's not bad, perhaps a week or two earlier than normal thanks to the warm spring. Varieties are Sungold and the wonderfully-named Bloody Butcher; both were chosen for their excellent flavour. The cucumbers are also cropping well and the sweet peppers have half-sized fruits already.
#plants #gardens #gardening #tomatoes #vegetables #greenhouse #cucumbers 
#peppers