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How to Safely Preserve Vegetables in Oil
We’re a pretty easy-going bunch here at Food Gardening Network. After all, we get to grow vegetables, cook with them, and write about the whole experience. What’s not to enjoy? …
peppers
Seven New Crops to Try in 2027
Every gardener has favorites.
There are the tomatoes we wouldn't dream of leaving out of the garden. The basil that belongs beside them. The green beans that disappear almost as quickly …
7 Tips for Storing Squash No Matter What Type
Squash gets overlooked for its versatility and overall yum-factor when it comes to garden vegetables (okay, technically a fruit). Always a bridesmaid, squash is often relegated to “side dish material,” …
How to Pollinate Indoor Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Squash and Other Plants
Living in the Northeast, I’ll admit that I don’t take indoor fruit and vegetable growing too seriously. I consider it part hobby, part science experiment, and part stubborn determination to …
Gardening Humor for “Real” Gardeners
Do you remember when you were a young budding gardener, and you thought, "one day I'll be like those other gardeners, with their perfectly pruned tomatoes, their pollinator gardens, and …
Epilogue: The Harvest That Keeps Giving
If you have made it this far, first let me say thank you.
You trusted us enough to spend time together talking about jars, freezers, drying racks, fermentation, root cellars, …
The Flavor Vault
If chapters 31 and 32 were about saving vegetables and fruits, this final recipe chapter is about preserving something equally valuable: flavor.
Herbs and spices are among the smallest harvests …
Top 10 Vegetable Preservation Recipes
Some gardeners grow vegetables.
Food gardeners grow possibilities.
And eventually every food gardener encounters the same happy problem—
too much harvest.
Tomatoes begin stacking up.
Peppers arrive all at once.
Beans suddenly multiply.
Zucchini develops ambitions.
At …
Onions and Garlic
Some crops become meals.
Others become ingredients.
Onions and garlic become possibilities.
Tomatoes may receive applause.
Peppers attract attention.
Fresh berries disappear before they ever reach preservation.
But onions and garlic?
They quietly show up every …
