Never Turn Your Back On The Cucumbers

I had it in my schedule to pick cucumbers every 4 days, and really I knew better, but I ignored the garden this week. I know--in August, after giving them Miracle Grow every week and filling the beds with horse manure...what was I thinking? So tonight we havewhat is about to be a pickling marathonspaceships from the planet "Squash,"
and FINALLY specimens from our volunteer tomato plant, which are either really big grape tomatoes or really small Roma tomatoes. Hard to say, really. as I had both last year. Tasting them doesn't help either because the grape tomatoes I had last year weren't the wonderful sweet snack tomatoes that I had hoped for. They were just nondescript litle tomatoes. Sort of like these......

And if you're wondering why I don't just come to my senses and start giving away cucumbers, the pickles are really fabulous & we've already gone through two quarts and a pint and technically none of them are actually even "ready" to open. So......it's back to pickling every 4 days. (And yes, no more Miracle Grow for the cucumbers...)