Well, after watering the garden for two days in a row, on the third day, it rained. Our purple hull pea seeds may be floating down the Mississippi right about now.
I picked tomatoes before work yesterday morning - got about 3 gallons - but I did not peel them after work as I'd planned. There were a fair amount of tomatoes on the vines that weren't quite ripe enough to suit me, so I left them there to ripen a bit more. The ones I picked will be okay on the back porch until tomorrow.
The okra is churning out pods like crazy. I've been wanting to make pickled okra, but I want to find a recipe that will make CRISP pickled okra. I cut some yesterday morning, intending to pickle it, but a quick internet search did not turn up a recipe that I thought would be crisp. I did make one jar of "refrigerator" pickled okra, but it might not turn work. All I did was heat vinegar and water and pour it over raw okra in a jar, with some dill, garlic, and red pepper flakes. Didn't water bath it or seal it. After it cooled a bit, I put it in the refrigerator, so what I've got is basically still raw okra in a jar. It might not be worth eating, but I won't have lost anything but a handful of okra and a little bit of time.
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