How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

How to Store Your Garden Produce: the key to self-sufficiency is the modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy-to-use reference section provides storage and preservation techniques for the majority of plant produce commonly grown in gardens and allotments.

Why is storing your garden produce the key to self-sufficiency? Because with less than an acre of garden you can grow enough produce to feed a family of four for a year, but as much of the produce will ripen simultaneously in the summer, without proper storage most of it will go to waste and you'll be off to the supermarket again. Learn simple and enjoyable techniques for storing your produce and embrace the wonderful world of self-sufficiency.

In the A-Z list of produce, each entry includes recommended varieties, suggested methods of storage and a number of recipes: everything from how to make your own cider and pickled gherkins to how to string onions and dry your own apple rings. You'll know where your food has come from, you'll save money, there won't be any packaging, and you'll be eating tasty local food whilst feeling very, very good about it!

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How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

How to Store Your Garden Produce: the key to self-sufficiency is the modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy-to-use reference section provides storage and preservation techniques for the majority of plant produce commonly grown in gardens and allotments.

Why is storing your garden produce the key to self-sufficiency? Because with less than an acre of garden you can grow enough produce to feed a family of four for a year, but as much of the produce will ripen simultaneously in the summer, without proper storage most of it will go to waste and you'll be off to the supermarket again. Learn simple and enjoyable techniques for storing your produce and embrace the wonderful world of self-sufficiency.

In the A-Z list of produce, each entry includes recommended varieties, suggested methods of storage and a number of recipes: everything from how to make your own cider and pickled gherkins to how to string onions and dry your own apple rings. You'll know where your food has come from, you'll save money, there won't be any packaging, and you'll be eating tasty local food whilst feeling very, very good about it!

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How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

by Piers Warren
How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

by Piers Warren
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How to Store Your Garden Produce: the key to self-sufficiency is the modern guide to storing and preserving your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round. The easy-to-use reference section provides storage and preservation techniques for the majority of plant produce commonly grown in gardens and allotments.

Why is storing your garden produce the key to self-sufficiency? Because with less than an acre of garden you can grow enough produce to feed a family of four for a year, but as much of the produce will ripen simultaneously in the summer, without proper storage most of it will go to waste and you'll be off to the supermarket again. Learn simple and enjoyable techniques for storing your produce and embrace the wonderful world of self-sufficiency.

In the A-Z list of produce, each entry includes recommended varieties, suggested methods of storage and a number of recipes: everything from how to make your own cider and pickled gherkins to how to string onions and dry your own apple rings. You'll know where your food has come from, you'll save money, there won't be any packaging, and you'll be eating tasty local food whilst feeling very, very good about it!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399416573
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 08/05/2025
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Piers Warren grows all manner of fruit and vegetables in his garden and greenhouse. As well as being an author of several books and many magazine articles, he also teaches wildlife film-making. He is very experienced in running a smallholding and is keen to promote organic principles, sustainability and green thinking. He lives near Norwich.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Methods

General guidelines

Basic storage

Clamping

Freezing

Drying

Vacuum packing

Salting

Bottling

Pickles and chutneys

Relishes, ketchups and sauces

Jams and jellies

Fruit butters and cheeses

Fermenting

Part Two: The Produce

Apples

Artichokes – globe

Artichokes – Jerusalem

Asparagus

Aubergines

Beans – broad

Beans – French

Beans – runner

Beetroot

Blackberries

Blackcurrants, redcurrants and whitecurrants, jostaberries and chokeberries

Broccoli – purple sprouting

Brussels sprouts

Cabbages

Calabrese

Carrots

Cauliflowers

Celeriac

Celery

Chard

Cherries

Chicory

Cucumbers

Endive

Fennel

Figs

Garlic

Gooseberries

Grapes

Herbs

Horseradish

Kale

Kohl rabi

Leeks

Lettuces

Medlars

Melons

Mulberries

Mushrooms and other edible fungi

Nuts

Okra

Onions

Parsnips

Peaches, nectarines and apricots

Pears

Peas, sugarsnap peas and mangetout

Peppers – sweet and chilli

Plums, greengages and damsons

Potatoes

Quinces

Radishes

Raspberries, loganberries, tayberries and boysenberries

Rhubarb

Salsify and scorzonera

Spinach

Squashes – summer

Squashes – winter

Strawberries

Swedes

Sweetcorn

Tomatoes

Turnips

Useful resources

Acknowledgements

Photo credits

Main index

Index of recipes

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