Made my first batch of pickles tonight

[rbeau30]

That's what I'm doing.

Sweet! Once you get past skimming the mold it is easy. Did you add Grape leaves or Cherry leave for crispness? I have 3 Grape Vines and two cherry trees if anyone wants to try next year and add leaves to their batch.

My first bath turned out good. Got kinda mushy after about 2 months.

You can can them once they get to the point you like them.

Just strain the liquid off, bring it to a boil and process the pickles in a hot water bath canner. It stops the conversion of sugars to lactic acid by killing the Lacto-bacillus pro-biotics and basically freezing the fermentation process.