Last Vegetable Garden

I feel like I should record for posterity my last vegetable garden.   It is my last one because next year, I am going to turn that garden into a garden of annual flowers.  There is a reason for that, but that is another story altogether!!

Despite all the being discouraged when the rabbit and groundhog and deer came and ate the kale, and lettuce, etc.,  I actually have ended up with quite a "haul" of garden produce!

This is what I picked just on one day.  There have certainly been lots of other beets, and zucchini.  The cucumbers suddenly started producing lots of cukes all at once.

Obviously,  I cannot eat that many fresh cucumbers, so I decided that it must be time to make some pickles. After looking at recipes,  it became clear to me that my favorite pickles are of the "bread and butter" kind.

So I just finished making a batch of bread and butter pickles, and they are indeed delicious!

I would never have thought to make pickles had it not been for my abundance of cucumbers!   One just cannot waste good garden produce!!

There will also soon be a bunch of tomatoes that ripen at the same time.  However, those are the "snacking kind".....small sweet yellow tomatoes that are good right off the vine.

I seriously doubt there will be more than we can eat,  but I suppose that remains to be seen.

Perhaps there is tomato jam or sauce or relish in my future.  Who knows?