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.
Record details
ISBN:9781900322171 (pbk.) :
Physical Description:print 143 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Edition:Rev. and enl. ed.
Publisher:Totnes, Devon : Green Books, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part 1. 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 2. The Produce -- Apples -- Artichokes (Globe) -- Artichokes (Jerusalem) -- Asparagus -- Aubergines -- Beans -- Broad -- Beans -- French -- Beans -- Runner -- Beetroot -- Blackberries -- Black Currants, Red and White Currants, Jostaberries and Chokeberries -- Broccoli and Calabrese -- Brussels Sprouts -- Cabbages -- Carrots -- Cauliflowers -- Celeriac -- Celery -- Chard -- Cherries -- Chicory -- Cucumbers -- Endive -- Fennel -- Figs -- Garlic -- Gooseberries -- Grapes -- Herbs -- Horseradish -- Kale -- Kohlrabi -- Leeks -- Lettuces -- Medlars -- Melons -- Mulberries -- Mushrooms -- Nuts -- Okra -- Onions -- Parsnips -- Peaches, Apricots and Nectarines -- Pears -- Peppers (Capsicum and Chilli) -- Plums, Damsons and Greengages -- Potatoes -- Qunices -- Radishes -- Raspberries, Loganberries, Tayberries and Boysenberries -- Rhubarb -- Salsify and Scorzonera -- Spinach -- Squashes - Summer -- Squashes - Winter -- Strawberries -- Swedes -- Sweetcorn (Maize) -- Tomatoes -- Turnips.