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| Click on Image to Enlarge 1st Pickling Cucumber of the Season! |
Earlier in the season, I grew peas in a planter box at the side of my front porch; then in June, I replaced the harvested peas with pickling cucumber plants I'd seeded indoors.
The cucumber plants took much longer than I thought they would to establish themselves outdoors, but finally started creeping up the trellis.
Eventually, pretty yellow flowers began to open; and today, I was thrilled to find an actual cucumber growing out of one of those flowers - The first cucumber of many, I hope.
We've been making baby dill pickles most years since I was a teen, involving four generations of family in the process, but never with cucumbers grown from seed at home.
As my Mammoth Dill is growing well, above ground in a pot, it's my hope to be able to grow enough cucumbers to make at least one bottle of dill pickles from home grown ingredients, this year.
That would be a first, but hopefully not the last.
