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I know there's lots of gardeners out there... what's your favourite ways to use up your garden produce??  
 
My go-to is to saute onions, sliced small zucchini, garlic and swiss chard in a bit of olive oil, with a generous shake of S&P. Bonus points of there's tomatoes to toss in to make a bit of a sauce.  
 
Or toss sliced tomatoes, fresh dill and feta for a super-simple, delicious salad!

I'm overrun with cucumbers this year!! I've pickled as many as we can reasonably eat in a year... what else can I do with them?

My wife used to make cucumber relish ! Do a Google search . Lot of recipes !

Oh I agree homemade relish is the best. Once you have homemade you sure hate eating store brands.

We are living off the land. A big pot of beef stew with vegetables from garden - peas, beans, carrots, onions and potatoes. Made Saturday when cool and warming up in micro wave to night as to not heat house up. Also apple pie with our own apples.

I still have 15 jars of relish from last year, LOL. I usually make it out of zucchini, and had bumper crops of zucchini last year, hence why I still have so much relish.  
 
I've also canned anything I could that allowed either cucumbers or zucchini, and I'm refusing to make more pickles at this point. I've pickled cucumbers (2 ways), beans, random mixed veggies, beets... it will take us probably 2 years to eat what I've made so far this year! And I haven't even started saurkraut yet.  
 
I'm waiting patiently for my tomatoes to ripen so I can make salsa (2 ways) and can the tomatoes (I've already made lots of things out of green tomatoes, including salsa verde). If only cucumber salsa was a thing....

That sounds delish. We used to do that at the farm growing up, it was always the best.  
 
We have apple trees too and I can a lot of the apples into applesauce, then make applesauce pie during the winter.

Our favourite is fresh sliced cucumbers with homemade sweet sauce - mayo, vinegar and sugar. We could eat it everyday!  
 
Our garden was flooded so it put it really behind. Just got our first cucumbers of the season today

But my daughter googled freezing cucumbers if that interests you for something new.

Samaritan House will take garden produce that people are unable to use!

A favourite at our house:  
http://www.health-bent.com/sides/paleo-pad-thai

Here's one for you -- Cucumber Wine !!! Google it and you'll be surprised at what turns up !!!

Cucumber, tomato, feta, Greek dressing is what I had for supper.