My friend has a wonderful garden that was started early in a greenhouse in February. A few days ago I checked the status of the pickles and they were all rather tiny. Saturday they were ready to be picked in an assortment of sizes! I cut the large pickles into "hamburger slices" and the smaller pickles into spears.
In my little house there's only a 2-burner stove...and one of those burners is not working. The larger one of course! It was VERY challenging to time everything and bring the water to a boil on the smaller burner. Perhaps it's time to look into getting that repaired or a new stove-top. Going from being a 4-burner girl to 2 burners has been quite an adjustment!
And here they are! My first ever dill pickles!
(Try not to picture a 51-year old 6'1" woman doing the happy dance in the kitchen when they were done. It might ruin the effect.)