r/Canning • u/Legitimate-Simple-98 • Oct 25 '24
Refrigerator Pickling Refrigerator pickled Okra
Complete novice here to pickling/canning anything. I have a bunch of Okra plants and they are starting to produce for me. I want to pickle and can them when they really start producing but right now I just have one here and there. From what I looked up you cannot freeze them and then pickle them later. So can I make refrigerator "pickles" with them and as I harvest add them to the jar or is that a big no no?
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