Pickled cucumbers.

It's been so hot  in our side vegetable garden this week that we have had to make a large shade tent-like structure.  We'd collected lots of caña from when Miguel took the old roof down from the corral next door,  John has trimmed the caña, fixed it to the fence, lashed it all together so it's really sturdy, then covered it with an old white olive net.  Even so,  the sun is getting through at times and the plants are wilting.   A good long drink of water in the late evening perks them up .....until  about 5pm    
the next day.   The cucumbers seem to be withstanding the heat better although they have their floppy moments too.   Hasn't stopped them producing more than we can keep up with though.  The pepinos we grow are not like the long ones,  they are about 6 to 8 inches at most.  Today I've started to do a jar of pickled cucs,  tried before without using a recipe and got it wrong,  too vinegary as I didn't salt and soak first.  Better luck this time.  Sliced and put to soak this afternoon,  will do the vinegar and sugar solution tomorrow morning - the recipes I've looked at say to leave for a few weeks before eating but then I found another recipe which was basically the same but to eat straight away.   With the number we've got growing we need to taste sooner rather than later and get some more pickled before they get too big and bitter tasting.  We've only got 5 plants in,  thanks heavens I didn't grow any more!