We eat tons of salad when the tomato and cuke's are ripe. Right now we have a good amount of both. Last week for the first time I made freezer pickles. At the end of the season when we still have green tomatos on the vine and a frost warning ... I'll pick the green ones and pickle them "freezer pickle" style. I'm not into canning the old fashioned way, so when a friend introduced me to freezer pickles I was overjoyed!!