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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

Cucumber harvest is coming in and I had good luck with lactofermented hot sauce last year and refrigerator pickle chips this year so it's time for Hard Mode

Pickle spears in wide mouth mason jars with airlock tops, sitting in a glass pan to catch drips, ready for lactofermentation
aug 24, 2025, 1:10 am • 37 0

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grumpy toad @mr-implausible.bsky.social

wanna see my cucumber? i’m an excellent gardener

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aug 24, 2025, 1:19 am • 3 0 • view
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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

Yeah i got a few of those right now. Found a tutorial that suggested adding a little chunk of the crooked ones to the too of the jar so you can test how the fermentation is going

aug 24, 2025, 1:21 am • 3 0 • view
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grumpy toad @mr-implausible.bsky.social

hornworms destroyed my tomatoes in like a day. and these guys destroyed my parsley so i put them in caterpillar jail.

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aug 24, 2025, 1:28 am • 2 0 • view
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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

Gardening is so annoying. My big garden bed of high altitude drought tolerant ornamentals (all 7 of them) that ive been fiddling with for 10 years was completely destroyed by ground squirrels and I'm going to have to dig out everything and add wire to the bottom/sides

aug 24, 2025, 1:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

I'm not like the most trendy or imfluencer-brained person but something about the aesthetics of the fancy pickling supplies (these glass "pickle pebbles" especially) is 😇 to me

aug 24, 2025, 1:13 am • 25 1 • view
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Óscar de la Basura @dmoneyofsinope.bsky.social

No one else in the House of D-Money will eat them, but I nose-to-tail-ed some kohlrabi (sauté the leaves, turn the inner part of the root into a quick pickle, and lacto-ferment the stems and outer part of the root

Left to right: kohlrabi outer root, flesh, and leaves
aug 24, 2025, 1:47 am • 2 0 • view
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Óscar de la Basura @dmoneyofsinope.bsky.social

(Here’s the skin post-sauering):

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aug 24, 2025, 1:49 am • 2 0 • view
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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

Yum! I love kohlrabi but ive never tried it pickled!

aug 24, 2025, 1:51 am • 2 0 • view
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Óscar de la Basura @dmoneyofsinope.bsky.social

I will say probably don’t do the quick pickle with daikon: it’s a pretty purple color and it tastes about the same as the plain kohlrabi, but it smells SO BAD.

Left: kohlrabi and daikon quick pickle, right: plain kohlrabi quick pickle
aug 24, 2025, 1:59 am • 3 0 • view
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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

That's random/good to know, the tapas place down the street does a super sweet bright yellow pickled daikon and its so good, ive always wondered how they do it...

aug 24, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
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the autumn and the scarlet🍁 @beneprism.rip

I have some of those (it's been too long since I've made pickles, I should fix that) and I absolutely agree. I have almost purchased some lovely stone crocks that I absolutely do not have the space for

aug 24, 2025, 1:16 am • 3 0 • view
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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

*Gritting teeth* she's just like me

aug 24, 2025, 3:00 am • 1 0 • view
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ventybones @ventybones.bsky.social

I need to find the pickle sweater my wife picked out for me

aug 24, 2025, 1:13 am • 3 0 • view
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the autumn and the scarlet🍁 @beneprism.rip

Damn I need a pickle sweater!

aug 24, 2025, 3:02 am • 2 0 • view
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the autumn and the scarlet🍁 @beneprism.rip

I do have a pickle *sticker*

Sock Dreams (Portland, OR) sticker, pickle themed, green and yellow and blue. The babe in their logo has green hair and is holding a very large pickle
aug 24, 2025, 3:03 am • 2 0 • view
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ventybones @ventybones.bsky.social

Yo that's a sick pickle sock sticker (this is so fun to say)

aug 24, 2025, 3:06 am • 2 0 • view
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the autumn and the scarlet🍁 @beneprism.rip

They send you 2 free stickers with each order, so I have... more than 2 stickers! I like them but you know there's only so many different pride color variants of the same logo I need in sticker form

aug 24, 2025, 3:12 am • 2 0 • view
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kit sparks 🇨🇦 @kitsparks.bsky.social

pouring one out to… Hestia? for good pickles 🥒

aug 24, 2025, 1:14 am • 4 0 • view
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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

Hell yeah Hestia

aug 24, 2025, 1:14 am • 4 0 • view
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the autumn and the scarlet🍁 @beneprism.rip

They're so beautiful. May the passing of that lovely green color be seen by the Gods of Fermentation as a sacrifice worthy of bestowing supreme flavor in return.

aug 24, 2025, 1:12 am • 3 0 • view
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Belle J'étranger @cheatlines.co

🤞🤞🤞

aug 24, 2025, 1:13 am • 1 0 • view