Help! Overrun with pickling cucumbers!

[booker81]

Anyone have ideas/recipes? I've canned up as many dill pickles, bread and butter pickles, and sweet relish that I can stand, and the pickling cukes just won't stop. Anyone have ideas on other types of recipes? I'll be slicing some up to put in vinegar with some sugar (not sure if that's a regional thing or not, it's really good), but I'd like to do some more....stuff with my harvest. I'd like to not can much more (I need to get more jars), but just anything to do with these things.

Our road doesn't get much traffic, so roadside stands don't work. Not sure if there are any good recipes for cooking, eating, dips, freezing, dehydrating, or whatever that people do....

 

[Gryphon]

What about selling them on craigslist? I'm sure there's canners on there that would love to get their hands on some fresh pickling sized cukes! Or sell the finished products, listing them as great for parties and so forth.

 

[locke2121]

Pull up the plants, fruit and all, chop them up and toss them on the compost heap. Then oversow the area with some clover or vetch as a green manure crop. Till that in before fall to reinvigorate the soil.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Add a little sour cream and dill to your sliced cuckes and vinegar. Super YUM!
And it is a regional thing, mine is from northern Wisconsin, Green Bay area!

 

[FlaRocky]

Mom and Granny taught me, cukes and sliced onions in vinagar,chill and have with supper. With or without sugar.

I am 5th generation Florida.

Maye

Ride the Glide.....Got Gait.....I Do....

 

[yo burrill]

Wish I had that problem!!!! Cant get enough to once to pickle anything!!!

 

[Imprfctme]

Anyone have ideas/recipes? I've canned up as many dill pickles, bread and butter pickles, and sweet relish that I can stand, and the pickling cukes just won't stop. Anyone have ideas on other types of recipes? I'll be slicing some up to put in vinegar with some sugar (not sure if that's a regional thing or not, it's really good), but I'd like to do some more....stuff with my harvest. I'd like to not can much more (I need to get more jars), but just anything to do with these things.

Our road doesn't get much traffic, so roadside stands don't work. Not sure if there are any good recipes for cooking, eating, dips, freezing, dehydrating, or whatever that people do....

I had three varieties of cucumbers going this summer and we had the same problem for a while. Don't forget about Gazpacho! If you don't have any tomatoes, you can make an awesome white gazpacho with green grapes and buttermilk. I froze some extra, and recently thawed it and it was ok. Maybe if you're going to freeze it add bread to it first? I usually leave out the bread to save calories.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Pull up the plants, fruit and all, chop them up and toss them on the compost heap. Then oversow the area with some clover or vetch as a green manure crop. Till that in before fall to reinvigorate the soil.

Yup. After we've sold all we possibly can, done our own preserving/canning, fed all we should to the chickens and given them away until people scream "uncle", it is time to just let them replenish the soil. It's OK. We just give our selves permission to let them go. Don't even pick them. We'll disc them under this fall.

 

[downsm75]

Ok, put them in a Kroger bag, then in a box, after putting them in the box, take them IMMEDIATELY to the post office... And send them to meeee

 

[erinszoo]

Ok, put them in a Kroger bag, then in a box, after putting them in the box, take them IMMEDIATELY to the post office... And send them to meeee

or meeeeeeee. I got a total of 7 cucumbers this year. Seriously thought there is a recipe for freezer pickles that you just chop the cukes, put them in the liquid and stick them in the freezer until ready to use. No canning involved. And I'm from Oklahoma and cukes in vinegar and sugar is a standard in the fridge during the summer so it's not so regional I guess. Lol. I always thought it was a southern thing.