The Ball Blue Book is a major asset for pickling. You can often find one at
stores that have a good selection of jars, etc. or you can order one he
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

There are many kinds of pickles .... Do you like sweet, dill, lime, bread
and butter, etc? Canned or frozen or fresh? For some types of pickles
you'll want to harvest the cukes when they're very small; some cucumber
varieties do better with that than others.


"joe s" wrote in message
. ..
we are going to have a HUGE crop of cucumbers this year and i would love
to
pickle a majority of them.

do any of you have any good ones you live by?
(ps - i have gotten some from internet research, just couldn't hurt to ask
)