Too many cucumbers!

Cut in sections , hollow out the seeds and stuff with a stuffing of your choice - anything from sausage meat to cream cheese and then cook in a light curry sauce and serve with rice - and some of the Indian style courgette chutney I make with our surplus courgettes.

NanaandGrampy
I'm glad you and Grampy liked the refrigerator pickles.

My 7 year old DGD loves cucumbers so I planted two plants which got shredded in a massive hailstorm. I planted two more which are now producing lots of cucumbers. She loves eating them and is so excited she is giving them to friends and neighbours. She especially likes the bendy ones. The shops may be full of them Blinko but there is no comparison in taste! Sadly no one else in the family likes them so DGD and I are eating them with everything!

Next we are waiting for the green bean plant she brought from school (Actually it was waterlogged and dead so I had to buy more seeds and plant a new one ... Happily the warm weather is making it grow centimetres every day!)

Don’t want to brag, but our produce is coming on in leaps and bounds. I put a little table at the gate with an honesty jar and sell off surplus.

Today have sold 1 large cucumber, 1 small cucumber, 2 punnets courgettes, 4 punnets cherry tomatoes, 4 punnets large tomatoes.

We eat loads of them ourselves.

??

I tried the PageTurner , Grampy says theyre not bad - high praise indeed !!

For courgettes, I julienne them and freeze them, then when I need a vegetable side I finely chop some onion, a little garlic and some bacon chopped up or lardons, throw in the courgettes and fry off ( don't use any oil or anything ) , they brown off and are delicious.

Spiralised and stir fried they taste exactly like courgettes.

Cucumberetti.

Yes. Masses of fruit but ripening one at a time. Very frustrating.

I've just given them all a good feed with stinky liquid comfrey so hopefully that will speed things up a bit.

My tomatoes seem slow this year, they are ripening one at a time! You’d think, with all the heat they would be ready by now.

Same here, lemon. I gave away a carrier bag full at the weekend and it's hardly made a dent in the glut.

Ratatouille for the freezer is my usual way of dealing with them but my tomatoes haven't caught up yet so I may have to resort to tinned.

I find those plastic Chinese take-away cartons are a perfect size for two and stack neatly so it's a good way of re-cycling them.

I have a courgette fest going on .....unsure why I grow them as I always end up with far too many.

I have found a Thai pickled cucumber recipe and will be giving that a go later on today as I also have cucumber fest going on.

Will report back.

I’m going to give that a go Pageturner !!thank you

I make this easy recipe every summer.

Homemade Refrigerator Pickles
1 cup white vinegar. (8 ounces)
1 tablespoon salt
2 cups white sugar
6 cups thinly sliced cucumbers
1 cup thinly sliced onion
1 cup sliced green bell pepper
Celery seed and mustard seed to taste

Place cucumbers, onion, pepper, celery seeds and mustard seeds in a large bowl.

In medium size sauce pan over medium heat, bring vinegar, salt, and sugar to a boil. Boil about 10 minutes or until sugar is dissolved.
Pour mixture over veggies and stir to combine all ingredients.
Transfer to a container with a lid and store in the refrigerator. Cucumbers will keep for about three weeks.

This is an old recipe. I remember both my mother and grandmother making it.

Blinko.
In Tescos today, Spanish cucumbers 65p.
DH could not believe they couldn’t source British ones.
Also all the different tomatoes were Spanish, Polish or Dutch.
No sign of UK ones.
And the salad potatoes were from Israel.

Bet they're dead cheap in the shops now, as well.

We've been giving them away. Ours are lovely, but we've got far too many. We've only got one plant too.

Thanks all! I’m going to try all these ?

I make soup, but not cold. I freeze it ready for winter.

Add them to fruit smoothies, give some away.

Cucumbers are similar to courgettes.
When I'm feeling energetic I make a sort of savoury loaf:
Make a batter with eggs flour s&p and a little veg oil.
Add a finely chopped onion.
Grate cucumbers, carrots, potatoes and add to the batter.
Bake in oiled loaf tins, or foil containers, in a hot oven until risen and browned. About an hour.
This is a nice side dish for cold meat or fish.

Pickle some? I've successfully done this, albeit many years ago.

Too many cucumbers? lots of tomatoes? tinned are ok and make Gazpacho. Garlic to taste .
Buy some baguettes .
Chill the liquidised veg.
Look up a recipe and it is lovely summer soup. It freezes there are loads of recipes.
I could eat lots of it.

Cucumbers are not just for eating...they can be used on the outside of the body too...eye-masks, face-masks, skin toners.

oh lovely....Philly and cucumber sandwiches. Could you do a facemask? not sure how, but would be refreshing

Cucumber & philly sandwich, smoked salmon & cucumber sandwich, chilled cucumber soup, multi veg soup, smoothies, cucumber relish.......should get rid of a few!