What are you pickling and what is your recipe?
I would like to pickle mixed vegetables, onions, banana peppers, carrots, beans, broccoli and more.
I use to be able to buy pickling spices at the grocery but no more. Even when it was available recipe was terrible it was always too sweet like pancake syrup mixed with vinegar and spices.
I have been saving the juice from Bread and Butter pickles and the juice from mild peppers and reusing it but i don't have enough juice to make more than 1 jars and that takes months before it is ready to eat. I would like to make 10 to 20 jars.
Some people make chow chow there seems to be several recipes because what I taste at the farmers market and craft fairs is all different.
I have seen pickled beans, beets, okra and many other things at the farmers market.