re: 2025 Spring Garden Thread

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The recipe I have for them is delicious.

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This is for fresh pickles. I've saved them in jars in the refrigerator for 2-3 months and they have still tasted good and were still crunchy. I'm not doing the pickling process of putting the jars in boiling water and all that.

I have a 1 gallon glass jar that i use (2 actually).

Fill the 1 gallon jug with 4 cups of water and 3 cups of white vinegar.
Mix all of the following ingrediants into the jug:
2/3 cup brown sugar
4 TBSP Kosher salt
mix those two first and make sure they dissolve completely.
4 TBSP Black pepper (coarse or whole peppercorns, don't recommend fine ground pepper)
4 TBSP Coriander seeds
2 tsp Crushed Red Pepper (add more if you want them spicier, but they can get pretty spicy)
1/2 cup garlic (I just use minced garlic from the jar)
1.5 cups of fresh Dill

Start adding cut up cucumbers. I can typically fit about 8 of my cut up pickling cucumbers into a jar. Let that sit in the refrigerator for 24-48 hours.
And here's the aggravating part.
Remove the pickled cucumbers from the jug and put into individual jars. Use the juice from the jug to fill up the jars once they are packed tight with pickles. Try your best to remove all the dill, garlic, pepper, coriander from the pickles and juice. I'll use a colander to strain the juice, but then you have to literally wash off each cucumber as it'll be covered in all the seasoning. That's more for simply wanting to open a jar and get a pickle out of it to eat without having other stuff all on it.

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haven’t paid attention to the forecast, but how bad is it supposed to get?

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My weather app is showing winds up to 25mph on Saturday

Finally got potatoes in...if this is a precursor to the rest of the spring garden season, I may not make next year's thread

We got a little small hail last night. I did a quick check in the dark this morning before heading to work and everything seems to have held up fine.

Thanks for the recipe TeddyPadillac

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I'd be more worried about splash-up onto the lower leaves from heavy rain. Shouldn't be a problem if you have a good mulch layer.

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Raised beds help with this as well.

My seedlings are ready for prime time. Unfortunately I’m watching the temps for this coming Thursday. Showing a low of 37. Started out at 40 and it keeps creeping lower. I should be in the clear after that.



The strawberries are really starting to boom. Picked the first red one yesterday.

I was productive this weekend, built another bed today





also planted two trees, cut one down, filled the hummingbird feeders, replaced all the water hoses that I’ve run over with the mower, transplanted some perennials, and treated my problem ant piles

time for me to sit

Pillage, is it too late to add the calcium nitrate?