Harvest Keeping
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Tips for making the BEST pickles. *Hint: It starts with great cucumbers.
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Step-by-step instructions for delicious pickled and fermented foods.
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Learn how to store your crops so you can enjoy your garden harvest all throughout the winter months.
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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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Here are 3 different ways to keep carrots from your garden fresh.
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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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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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For winter storage, choose beet varieties known to be good keepers. Vegetables store best when they're harvested at — not past — maturity.
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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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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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When stored correctly in their own papery wrappers, some types of onions will maintain their quality for as long as a year.
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Spicy? Smoky?
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Planting fall crops is a great way to get the most out of your garden space; with just a little planning, you can extend the harvest into the fall and even winter.
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This year, I decided to use the many elderberries on my two bushes to make elderberry syrup.
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Preserve that fresh herb flavor all year!
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Proper curing is the key to a long-lasting squash harvest. Learn how to cure and store winter squash.
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Learn to store and preserve the foods you grow.
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Preserving in jars is simple and foolproof.
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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 harvests in the end.
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Learn how to make your own pickles, sauerkraut, and kimchi. Specially designed crocks make fermentation and pickling easy.
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In about an hour, you can turn red onions into a zippy condiment: pickled onions.
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Learn how to cure and store your garlic harvest.