Have you ever seen a white cucumber before? Well here’s what one looks like:

Pretty cool, right? They taste about the same, but are smaller. This is the third one I’ve picked from my backyard.
Last weekend my dad came up for Father’s Day. He stopped beforehand and bought a bunch of small cucumbers from a roadside stand in Poteau, Oklahoma. He brought these with him, and he taught me how to make pickles:

It was easier than I’d have expected ,and a lot of fun. Also, they are delicious. And I love that I’m coming up on 30 years old and my dad is still teaching me how to do stuff.
In other news, I’m about to be awash in tomatoes:

And more tomatoes (these ones are Green Zebra tomatoes!)

AND EVEN MORE TOMATOES YET STILL ALSO TOO:

There are flowers on my okra, tiny little waxy buds on my peppers (and, in the container garden, a whole mess of full-grown peppers).

And a whole lot of mosquitoes and weeds, and it’s really, really hot in Oklahoma this summer, but since we’re not taking a long vacation this summer – a couple weekends away is all we have planned – I can keep everything nicely weeded and maintained and look forward to a great crop. I mean – check out how nuts all of this is going!



















25 June 2010
Family, Growing | Comments (2)