Well, yesterday was another day of canning pickles. I made 9 pints of Bread and Butter pickles. We've now got more pickles in the pantry than we would eat in two years. I don't know how many more pickling cukes I'm going to get because I've got some bugs that are beginning to take over my hills of cucumbers. I did a little research yesterday to see just what they are and how to control them, but I'm still not sure if it's squash bugs or something else. Mostly a million little black bugs. Tiny. And eggs. All on the backs of the leaves and flowers. I'm not sure what it is, but they are sucking the life right out of those vines. The leaves are yellowing up and wilting some. Even if I'm unable to save the plants I'd say we had a pretty good year with them. So far I have canned 32 pints of pickles which is more than we would eat in three years probably. Somebody will be getting them as a gift.
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