I went into the garden to check on the plants, and found so many cucumbers! I was excited. I made pickles.
We still have a few fresh for eating, and I’m sure there will be more.
I made a new friend today.
My orchid is still blooming!
I never thought I would be able to keep an orchid alive, but this one’s been going since April 2019.
Snakes & Cranes 
The first pickles of the season! I finally found a baby cucumber today so I’m excited.😀
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Your plants are all doing so well! That’s a great cucumber harvest, and the pickles look yummy. And yay for the praying mantis! They are great to have in your garden, and also so cute 🙂
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That’s a long-lived orchid, Alissa! And your new friend definitely seems to have made themselves at home. 🙂 The cucumbers look great – raw as well as when pickled. (Yum.)
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Boy you got right on to that pickling. I should follow your lead although my neighbour has said she will take on of mine. I think she will be surprised how enormously long it is. What variety are yours they look a more manageable size…although make up for it in quantity.
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It’s called Double Yield Cucumbers from Seed Savers Exchange.
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Those pickles look great and reminds me of when my grandmother and I would make sun pickles from the cucumbers in her garden. I am not even sure you can get pickle jars that size anymore! I don’t have a garden, but we do eat pickles and when the jar is finished I will peel a cucumber from the store and slice it and put it in the pickling juice. Those orchids look beautiful. I am not great with indoor plants, so you did really well!
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Awesome!!! especially the orchid….mine died shortly after I had it!
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Be still my heart! Praying Mantis and pickles in the same post. Have I died and gone to heaven?
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