Pickles

Our Gardens are overflowing! We are so thankful for the blessing of raising our own food. Not only does it help with the groceries but it also has been great for our summer science botany studies with the boys. For those new to the blog, we home school our kiddos. With the baby and moving in this last fall, we failed to get history and science lessons done so they are doing them this summer. As it turns out we are studying botany this year and the gardens have really helped with that. Or maybe the lessons helped with the garden? Who knows, who cares-it's all good!

So, we have come to the point that we have cucumbers out our ears and even after cutting them back we are still picking a 5 gal bucket every few days. Well, obviously we cannot eat that many so we have decided to allow the boys to start a veggie cart in town where they can sell the excess to raise money for a go cart they want. Even still, I think it is time to learn how to make pickles. Did you know it takes 3 weeks to turn a cucumber into a pickle? Pickles anyone?