The Gardening Project

Pickle

Pickling cucumbers is a great way to preserve fruit from your garden. Pickling cucumbers are smaller than the variety of cucumbers you would put in your salad.

I have never pickled anything before, but the concept is pretty simple. Keep everything sterile; add water and vinegar, salts, and spices. Seal in a mason jar.

When planting cucumbers, you should always remember that cucumbers like good drainage. Build a mound of dirt and plant at the top of the mound.

Calories and Nutritional Information for Cucumbers

COMPOSTING

Composting…yum. Unlike popular belief, compost doesn’t smell (sorry). I could talk for pages about composting. We could go over different types of bacteria, optimal temperatures, carbon: nitrogen ratios, etc. You’re in luck, I’m not going to do that (yet).

Here is the secret to composting…. Ready??… Put leaves, veggie scraps from dinner, and garden leftovers into a pile and wait. That’s it.

You don’t need an overwhelmingly complex composting bin bought at Super Joes Magic Compost Corner for hundreds of dollars. I have made bins made out of left over wood and chicken wire. Most common type by far is just an ol’ pile of leaves. Any of these types will result in compost.