Pick your cucumbers at peak ripeness and keep the plants productive as long as possible with these tips. Cucumbers are typically planted in spring and harvested throughout the summer season. They are ...

As the August harvest fills up baskets with a rainbow of veggies at green markets and as urban gardens hit their seasonal highs, home cooks now have plenty of produce to pickle vegetables. When it ...

• Pick the freshest fruits and vegetables available. • When pickling whole cucumbers, 2- to 4-inch cucumbers are best because you can get more in a typical canning jar. • Before pickling, wash ...

It’s all about timing when harvesting cucumbers for eating fresh or preserving as dill or sweet pickles. Picking these low-calorie vegetables ensures the best flavor, greatest nutritional value and ...

In this episode of In The Kitchen With Matt, I will show you how to make easy overnight pickles with store-bought dill ...

Any idea what sort of fossil this is? I found it on my allotment the other week. I found an ammonite fossil about the size of a golf ball in my garden once; an extinct marine cephalopod mollusc. Proof ...