Harvest And Store Your Garden Vegetables

Harvesting and Storing Home Garden Herbs and Vegetables

Don't let the end of growing season get you down! Your garden flourished, now is the time to reap what you sow!
There are a multitude of methods to harvest and store your bounty of home grown herbs and vegetables for year-round indulgence. So numerous in fact, we thought we'd compile them all in one place for your convenience.

Here we explore a number of ways to sun-dry, dehydrate, freeze, can, preserve and pickle your herbs and vegetables. You'll be able to take advantage of the best and traditional formulas to store your food for off season enjoyment.
Not to worry, we've made a point to include methods for you creative types, such as jams, preserves, chutneys, herb sugars and brines.

Sun-Dry Foods Herbs, fruits, vegetables can be dried using the heat of the sun and some basic equipment.

Freezing Vegetables Simple and effective guidelines for freezing a variety of vegetables from your garden.

Can and Freeze
Enjoy your Fruits and vegetables year round with this age old storage method.

Jam, Preserves, Chutney
Fill your cupboard full of your own home-grown fruit and vegetables.

Vegetable Dehydrating You can dehydrate vegetables at home with equipment you have on hand.

Pickling
Almost any garden vegetable (or fruit) can be pickled. Basic Brine techniques for pickling.

Drying Herbs
Dry and preserve your herbs for seasonings that will add flavor to all of your favorite recipes.

Dehydrating Veggies Dehydrating is one of the healthiest ways of preserving vegetables.

Herbal Sugars Herbal sugars are great for drinks and baked goods like cookies, cakes and biscuits.

Harvesting and Storing Different vegetables need different storage conditions. Temperature and humidity are key.

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