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

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Title:

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

Author:

Pleasant, Barbara, author.

ISBN:

9781612125787

Personal Author:

Pleasant, Barbara, author.

Publication Information:

North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2017]

Physical Description:

319 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Why grow your own food? -- Basic food preservation methods -- Vegetables for the homegrown pantry -- Fruits for the homegrown pantry -- Herbs for the homegrown pantry.

Subject Term:

Food crops.

Food -- Preservation.

Vegetables.

Herbs.

Fruit.

Document ID:

SD_ILS:2264277

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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.

Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner

GWA Media Awards Silver Award Winner

Author Notes

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.

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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

No. 1 Why Grow Your Own Food?	p. 1
The Drive to Provide	p. 2
Twelve Common Traits of Pantry Gardeners	p. 2
How to Use This Book	p. 3
Your Climate, by the Numbers	p. 4
Choosing What to Grow	p. 5
Working with Tunnels	p. 7
Managing Your Food Preservation Garden	p. 10
Cooking From the Homegrown Pantry	p. 12
No. 2 Basic Food Preservation Methods	p. 15
Five Basic Food Storage Methods	p. 16
Cold Storage of Homegrown Produce	p. 16
Freezing Your Homegrown Bounty	p. 19
Drying Vegetables, Herbs, and Fruits	p. 24
Canning Your Homegrown Harvest	p. 33
The Magic of Food Fermentation	p. 38
No.3 Vegetables for the Homegrown Pantry	p. 51
Asparagus	p. 53
Beans	p. 61
Beefs	p. 71
Broccoli	p. 77
Brussels Sprouts	p. 82
Cabbage	p. 87
Carrots	p. 95
Corn	p. 100
Cucumbers	p. 107
Garlic	p. 115
Kale and Collards	p. 121
Kohlrabi	p. 128
Onions	p. 133
Parsnips	p. 142
Peas	p. 147
Peppers	p. 153
Potatoes	p. 161
Pumpkins	p. 171
Radishes	p. 178
Rhubarb	p. 184
Rutabagas	p. 190
Spinach	p. 194
Summer Squash	p. 199
Sweet Potatoes	p. 207
Swiss Chard	p. 213
Tomatoes	p. 219
Turnips	p. 227
Winter Squash	p. 231
No. 4 Fruits for the Homegrown Pantry	p. 238
Berries	p. 239
Blueberries	p. 240
Grapes	p. 247
Raspberries	p. 253
Strawberries	p. 259
Tree Fruits	p. 263
Apples	p. 267
Cherries	p. 275
Pears and Asian Pears	p. 280
Plums, Peaches, and Nectarines	p. 285
No. 5 Herbs for the Homegrown Pantry	p. 291
Kitchen Herbs	p. 292
Basil	p. 293
Cilantro	p. 294
Dill	p. 295
Marjoram	p. 296
Oregano	p. 298
Parsley	p. 299
Rosemary	p. 300
Sage	p. 301
Thyme	p. 302
Tea Herbs	p. 303
Catnip	p. 304
Chamomile	p. 305
Lemon Balm	p. 306
Monarda	p. 307
Raspberries	p. 308
Stevia	p. 309
Index	p. 313

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