Harvest Keeping
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How to Freeze or Dry Herbs
Preserve that fresh herb flavor all year!
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How to Make Simple Syrup
Add zesty sweetness to sodas and cocktails. Here is a simple recipe for simple herb-infused syrup.
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How To Store Your Garden Harvest
Learn how to store your crops so you can enjoy your garden harvest all throughout the winter months.
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How To Store Your Garden Harvest
Learn how to store your crops so you can enjoy your garden harvest all throughout the winter months.
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How to Store Carrots
Here are 3 different ways to keep carrots from your garden fresh.
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How to Store Beets
Like carrots, beets are good keepers — here are 3 ways to keep your beets.
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A Guide to Pickling and Fermentation
Learn how to make your own pickles, sauerkraut, and kimchi. Specially designed crocks make fermentation and pickling easy.
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How to Store Garlic
Learn how to cure and store your garlic harvest.
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How to Store Strawberries
Strawberries are the sweetest start to the summer garden! However unless frozen, strawberries generally won't keep much more than a week after harvest.
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When to Harvest and How to Store Winter Squash
Learn how, and when, to harvest your acorn, butternut, spaghetti, and Hubbard squash.
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How to Store Potatoes
Learn how to store your potatoes so you can enjoy them all winter long. For the longest shelf life, potatoes require a cool, dry, and dark storage space.
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How to Store Apples to Retain that Fresh-Picked Flavor
Nothing compares to the crunch and flavor of a just-picked apple. When stored properly, you can enjoy crisp, flavorful apples for months.
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Make Your Own Elderberry Syrup
This year, I decided to use the many elderberries on my two bushes to make elderberry syrup.
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Freezing Sweet Corn
Freezing sweet corn is a simple and effective method for preserving the delicious flavor and nutrients of this summertime favorite. Read more.
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Making Pepper Jelly
Preserving in jars is simple and foolproof.
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Keeping the Harvest
Learn to store and preserve the foods you grow.
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Recipes for Pickles, Sauerkraut and Kimchi
Step-by-step instructions for delicious pickled and fermented foods.
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Making Perfect Pickles, from Cuke to Crunch
Tips for making the BEST pickles. *Hint: It starts with great cucumbers.
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The Harvest Homestretch
Late summer is the seventh-inning stretch of the vegetable garden; time to step back and reassess. Here are a few tips from an old pro on how to score big...
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Make Your Own Hot Sauce
Spicy? Smoky?
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Quick, Easy Techniques for Preserving the Harvest
If you find yourself with more vegetables than time, here are a few of the super-quick, after-work solutions for saving some of summer's bounty for cold winter days.
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From Humble Onion to Something Special
In about an hour, you can turn red onions into a zippy condiment: pickled onions.
