The one skill that has the most value as a vegetable gardener is knowing how to preserve your crops. Preserving and Canning is a great thing to learn to keep your crops fresh to be used all year round.
Preserving tomatoes is a common task in late summer, and some of us do it on a regular basis. Tomatoes are one of the many delicious summer tastes, and happily, you can keep and enjoy them throughout the year. While freezing and drying are equally viable options, canning produces the finest flavor and texture for …
Summer squash come in many different varieties and are an excellent crop for the spring vegetable garden. From zucchini, cocozelle, and straightneck, to yellow croockneck and luffa squash, there are so many different cultivars to grow, depending on what climate you live in. summer squashes grow quickly and are harvested in the summer before they …
When the summer heat hits your garden, it’s time to harvest fresh berries! If you have a bumper raspberry harvest that you don’t know what to do with, we’ve got just the plan for you! To tell you the truth, raspberries won’t last too long once they’re picked. They’re best enjoyed right after picking. Even …
Did your flourishing veggie garden give a lot of beetroots this season? So you have a whole bunch of them which you can’t consume in days? Worry not, you’ll be saving your harvest to the last beetroot, savoring every last bite of it without getting bored! Yes, sweet pickled beetroot is what we’re talking about. …
Whether you have a flourishing apple tree in your backyard or couldn’t resist the low prices in the farmer’s market and came home with several dozen apples, the dilemma is the same. How are you going to preserve all these apples before they start going bad? Thankfully, apples have a good reputation as far as …
As tomato growers, we’re quite alike in some of our thoughts. Well before it’s harvest time, our mind starts flooding with all kinds of sauces, soups, and salsa recipes to preserve our ripe stash of tomatoes. One of the most popular ways to preserve tomatoes (and probably the yummiest way) is to make sauces. True …
