Yanked the Pickling Cucumber Plants

My summer days have been long, long, and long. The heat left, and boy is it chilly outside this morning. I could not believe it, after all these hot days. It also makes me sad we have not gone camping one time this year, and it's already August.

Back to the thought of this post...

Did you know that when your cucumbers (or even squash) starts out looking nice, but then you see one end rotting and smaller, means that the bees did not pollinate it? Interesting information for you today.

I pulled all of my pickling cucumber plants, and sent all the remaining cucumbers with my husband to work. We are done, done, done with those cucumbers. I still have my other plants out there, and we have been making a greek cucumber salsa daily here.

I am so stinkin' busy, and all I want is a day off. Well, the zucchini gave me a day off. I did not have one to pick, and we've been picking them every single day since the beginning of harvest.

I'm okay with that. Between freezing corn, and the garden, and trying to keep the sink free of dirty dishes, I am overly stressed with garden goods.

I have a new cookbook, thanks to the wonderful harvest of green/wax beans this year. I am sharing with a resident rodent, so who knows how much more we'll get. I'm not sure if it's the work of a chipmunk or small rabbit, that is not setting off my motion sensors.

We have a slight chance of rain this morning. I hope we get something. The tomatoes look parched.

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Horsetail Salve ~ A "first" this Year

We purchased some horsetail salve to try last year. It is said to help with severely dry, cracked skin. My husband was the first to try it, with very, very dry and cracked hands from work. He loves it! He joked I could not have it back. I started the infused, horsetail oil the last part of March. Something I learned: horsetail is also called shavegrass. I infused horsetail in oil, and strained it. I then made horsetail salve. I remembered to label my jar with what oil(s) I used, so I can journal this all in my "Herbal Remedies" journal. I often forget to write the oil used. Now, the one we bought, has more in it than I put in ours, as far as ingredients (the purchased salve had lanolin, and aloe). We'll see if ours works just as good. I added the sage essential oil, and vitamin E oil. A "first" time experience for us this year. I bought the larger tins at a seed store in an Amish area last year. They a...

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Chit Chat

The pickings are slim right now, but we'll take anything we are blessed with. I made a salad and cleaned the beans. The rain will give us more for a meal in a day or so. The green beans are every so slowly coming on this season. I made a batch of homemade granola, and instead of my homemade vanilla extract, I used my homemade Christmas Spice Extract. It smelled so good in the oven, and while cooling. I picked some purslane, and am doing an experiment with it this time. Update soon. Chit Chat © August 2026 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart

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