Harvest Keeping
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Tips for making the BEST pickles. *Hint: It starts with great cucumbers. -
Step-by-step instructions for delicious pickled and fermented foods. -
Learn how to store your crops so you can enjoy your garden harvest all throughout the winter months. -
Nothing compares to the crunch and flavor of a just-picked apple. When stored properly, you can enjoy crisp, flavorful apples for months. -
Here are 3 different ways to keep carrots from your garden fresh. -
Strawberries are the sweetest start to the summer garden! However unless frozen, strawberries generally won't keep much more than a week after harvest. -
Freezing sweet corn is a simple and effective method for preserving the delicious flavor and nutrients of this summertime favorite. Read more. -
For winter storage, choose beet varieties known to be good keepers. Vegetables store best when they're harvested at — not past — maturity. -
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. -
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. -
When stored correctly in their own papery wrappers, some types of onions will maintain their quality for as long as a year. -
Spicy? Smoky? -
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. -
This year, I decided to use the many elderberries on my two bushes to make elderberry syrup. -
Preserve that fresh herb flavor all year! -
Proper curing is the key to a long-lasting squash harvest. Learn how to cure and store winter squash. -
Learn to store and preserve the foods you grow. -
Preserving in jars is simple and foolproof. -
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. -
Learn how to make your own pickles, sauerkraut, and kimchi. Specially designed crocks make fermentation and pickling easy. -
In about an hour, you can turn red onions into a zippy condiment: pickled onions. -
Learn how to cure and store your garlic harvest.
