Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Veggie garden friends of the Mid-alantic 2, 0 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
Don't be intimidated by your mandoline! That weird thing with prongs that probably came with it is for doing things like potatoes -- stab it down into the potato so you can hold the thingie rather than putting your hand right on the potato (and slicing your fingers). Or live on the edge and just hold onto the veggie as shown in the photo below (which came from this article on cukes & refrigerator pickles: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1587/). Pay attention when you start getting close to the end... you do *not* want to trim the ends off your fingers! Just leave generous stubs and toss them in the compost.