Homegrown pantry : a gardener's guide to selecting the best varieties & planting the perfect amounts for what you want to eat year-round / Barbara Pleasant.

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Now that you've mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops -- including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more -- to keep your pantry stocked throughout the year. Each vegetable profile highlights how many plants to grow for a year's worth of eating, and which storage methods work best for specific varieties. Author Barbara Pleasant culls tips from decades of her own gardening experience and from growers across North America to offer planting, care, and harvesting refreshers for every region and each vegetable.



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*Starred Review* Out of the noise and disconnect that ended 2016, Pleasant delivers a guidebook of soul-saving coherence, practicality, thoroughness, and deeply seated wisdom, and reconnects our imagination to our soil to our labor to our mouths. The heart of the book is a showcase of 28 pantry vegetables, from asparagus to winter squash. Each entry includes explanations of varieties, of the portion size to plant for your household, and how to grow, harvest, store, and preserve it. Pleasant gives a conversational yet comprehensive walk-through, with photos, of the five preservation methods cold storage, freezing, drying, canning, and fermenting. Her seasonal calendar of food preservation is a great idea, and she smartly includes a planting timetable working back from the first-frost date of autumn, though not a planting calendar working forward from the last frost of winter/spring (not a biggie; planting dates are still found in each vegetable entry). This one's a keeper.--Moores, Alan Copyright 2017 Booklist

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Barbara Pleasant is the best-selling author of many books on organic gardening and self-sufficient living, including Starter Vegetable Gardens. Her articles appear regularly in Mother Earth News and Mother Earth Living. Pleasant lives in Virginia, where she grows vegetables, herbs, and fruits along with a few chickens.