A Word On Anticipated Harvest

My darlings I have a new rule of thumb when it comes to planting. Look to the average yield of each individual plant you wish to grow. Then plan on getting half that, but have a contingency plan in case you get double.This way you won't be disappointed if you get less than average yields (everyone and everything has bad years).

But on the off chance your plants decide they must go forth and fulfill some sort of manifest destiny you won't be overwhelmed by their um... generous out put.

Case in point: in my fridge I have 42 cucumbers. Forty-two. Three and a half dozen. The answer to life, the universe, and everything. And that doesn't count the two dozen or so I've already eaten or pickled earlier this season. No my darlings, that 42 cucumbers are only the ones harvested This Week.

For context 42 cucumbers looks like this:

Two liter bottle included for scale

I had not anticipated such a generous yield. I can get 3 (maybe 4) cucumbers into a single jar for pickling. That means between 10 and 15 jars. For this batch alone. And heaven help me there are more on the vine. So pickling will happen on Monday when I'm off from my day job. And after I've acquired more jars.  

Thankfully about 1/3 of this goes to a friend of mine who bought a row of cucumber plants for Fwigf earlier this season. But as she is going out of town I get to pickle her share for her. Monday will be a long, hot, day in my kitchen.