It’s on the bucket list in fact. Except next year I’m growing all my own veggies. It was just too late in the season for planting when I moved in here.
Congratulations! It’s a great pastime! If you’re approaching the winter months, now is the time to start prepping your beds. The freeze/thaw cycle of winter helps break down compost and fertilizers into usable nutrients for spring planting.
I look forward to hearing about your harvest next year.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with lacto fermentation. Like I do fine with my kimchi and sauerkraut, but every time I try to regular ass pickles I always end up with some kinda salt tolerant mold. And I measure out the salt with a jewelry scale accurate to very very small numbers, and put a weight on them and everything, they say to do! If I had any hair to be pulled out, I would have done so by now because of this.
I don’t know any Amish people, but holy shit would I assume that’s a grave insult if they ever found out. “Thanks for your free and neighborly homemade pickles, but I’m going to buy some and can them right tyvm”
To be clear, it’s a great idea to do, just don’t advertise it, lol.
Edit: they’re not a free gift, which also changes things in my mind
Your edit clarifies things, I thought I’d missed something. Ours sell all sorts of stuff, and as long as you’ve got the cash they couldn’t care less what you do lol
I buy all my plants from them in the spring, they’ve got awesome greenhouses where they start them. Then I’ll come back a few times throughout the summer and a few more times in the early fall and grab what I didn’t grow well in my garden.
They’re an absolute banging resource for gardening and fresh produce, and I’m glad they’re within driving distance.
Yeah, no, I just made a bunch of assumptions and didn’t clarify them.
I was imagining OPs neighbors gave them a bunch of stuff as a housewarming/welcome to the neighborhood/we’ve got a bunch of cucumbers this year thing. Buying it from their farmstand is totally different and I could even imagine OP chatting to them about how to can pickles in a friendly way.
But if I’d given someone home canned pickles and they decided that paying for cucumbers and taking the time to can them was better than accepting mine for free, I would probably worry about how I’d fucked them up. Like, I would definitely not be mad (though I can see a personality type who would), I’d just feel rejected.
Of course, if they’re just super into canning, that’s one thing, but then I’d probably just invite them over to do it together.
Buy the cucumbers from them, make your own. Pickles are easy and fun.
It’s on the bucket list in fact. Except next year I’m growing all my own veggies. It was just too late in the season for planting when I moved in here.
Congratulations! It’s a great pastime! If you’re approaching the winter months, now is the time to start prepping your beds. The freeze/thaw cycle of winter helps break down compost and fertilizers into usable nutrients for spring planting.
I look forward to hearing about your harvest next year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVmtm6QNrMQ
best video to get started with pickles on.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with lacto fermentation. Like I do fine with my kimchi and sauerkraut, but every time I try to regular ass pickles I always end up with some kinda salt tolerant mold. And I measure out the salt with a jewelry scale accurate to very very small numbers, and put a weight on them and everything, they say to do! If I had any hair to be pulled out, I would have done so by now because of this.
I don’t know any Amish people, but holy shit would I assume that’s a grave insult if they ever found out. “Thanks for your free and neighborly homemade pickles, but I’m going to buy some and can them right tyvm”
To be clear, it’s a great idea to do, just don’t advertise it, lol.
Edit: they’re not a free gift, which also changes things in my mind
Your edit clarifies things, I thought I’d missed something. Ours sell all sorts of stuff, and as long as you’ve got the cash they couldn’t care less what you do lol
I buy all my plants from them in the spring, they’ve got awesome greenhouses where they start them. Then I’ll come back a few times throughout the summer and a few more times in the early fall and grab what I didn’t grow well in my garden.
They’re an absolute banging resource for gardening and fresh produce, and I’m glad they’re within driving distance.
Yeah, no, I just made a bunch of assumptions and didn’t clarify them.
I was imagining OPs neighbors gave them a bunch of stuff as a housewarming/welcome to the neighborhood/we’ve got a bunch of cucumbers this year thing. Buying it from their farmstand is totally different and I could even imagine OP chatting to them about how to can pickles in a friendly way.
But if I’d given someone home canned pickles and they decided that paying for cucumbers and taking the time to can them was better than accepting mine for free, I would probably worry about how I’d fucked them up. Like, I would definitely not be mad (though I can see a personality type who would), I’d just feel rejected.
Of course, if they’re just super into canning, that’s one thing, but then I’d probably just invite them over to do it together.