Preserving the Harvest
While eating the fresh produce from our gardens is the best part of growing them, it’s important to know about preserving your harvest to enjoy during the fall and winter months.
Over the past few years, I’ve been blogging about the methods we use, which mostly involve canning and freezing. I’ve also shared the occasional recipe to give you ideas on how to enjoy what you’ve preserved.
Now I’ve put it all together in this new guide to preserving the harvest! I intend to continually add to it so both new and seasoned gardeners alike will know what to do with the awesome goodies they’ve grown. Each link in the table below will take you directly to my post with detailed instructions. Enjoy!
And as always, if you have a suggestion or question on this topic, just drop me a note at Susan@susansinthegarden.com. Also, remember that I have lots of videos on my YouTube channel about this very subject.
| Type of produce | Method/recipe |
| Apples | How to make chunky applesauce |
| Beans | How to freeze beans |
| Beans (Fava) | How to process fava beans for cooking |
| Beets | Beets: You Grew It, What To Do With It |
| Beets | Store and cook with beets (video) |
| Berries | How to freeze berries |
| Carrots | Carrots: You Grew It, What To Do With It |
| Celery | How to freeze celery |
| Chard | How to freeze Swiss chard |
| Grapes | How to make grape juice |
| Harvest, when to | Enjoying the harvest means knowing the signs (column) |
| Leeks | How to make leek and potato soup (video) |
| Leeks | Harvesting and storing leeks (video) |
| Onions, shallots & garlic | Onions, Shallots & Garlic: You Grew It, What To Do With It |
| Onions | When to harvest onions (video) |
| Parsnips | Potato-Parsnip recipe |
| Parsnips | What to do with parsnips |
| Peas | Pea soup recipe |
| Peppers | Preserving peppers |
| Plums | How to make spiced plum butter |
| Potatoes | Potato-Parsnip recipe |
| Pumpkins | Video: How to Make a Homegrown Pumpkin Pie |
| Pumpkins | How to make a homemade pumpkin pie |
| Squash (winter) & pumpkins | Winter Squash & Pumpkins: You Grew It, What To Do With It |
| Squash (winter) | How to cook butternut squash (video) |
| Squash (winter), pumpkins | Harvesting and storing winter squash and pumpkins (video) |
| Squash (winter), pumpkins | Storing winter squash and pumpkins |
| Squash (winter) | How to cure squash for longterm storage (video) |
| Squash (winter) | How to roast winter squash (video) |
| Squash (winter), pumpkins | When to harvest winter squash and pumpkins (video) |
| Storing/using produce | Garden leftovers means extended bounty (column) |
| Swiss chard | How to freeze Swiss chard |
| Tomatillos | Tomatillo harvest |
| Tomatoes | Fresh Tomato Salsa |
| Tomatoes | Homemade salsa (for canning) |
| Tomatoes | How to make oven-roasted tomato sauce |
| Tomatoes | How to make green tomatoes ripen (video) |
| Tomatoes | Early August tomato pruning to ripen tomatoes (video) |
| Tomatoes | Late August tomato pruning to ripen tomatoes (video) |
| Tomatoes | How to Make a Tomato-Pesto Sandwich (video) |
| Tomatoes | How to make tomato catsup |
| Vegetables (general) | How to make vegetable soup (video) |
| Vegetables (general) | How to make vegetable soup stock (video) |
| Vegetables (general) | How to Make Vegetarian Stew |
| When to harvest veggies | Enjoying the harvest means knowing the signs (column) |
