Preserving Food at a Small Kitchen Garden Blog

Nutmeg loves to laugh at me when I'm digging in my small kitchen garden.

For those of you who grow more vegetables than you can eat in a season, check out Your Small Kitchen Garden blog for a list of articles and links to help you preserve the extras! Find the article at preserving produce.

Small Kitchen Garden Surplus

There’s a simple technique many gardeners use to build up stores for the off season: When you harvest a bit more than you’ll eat at a meal, prep all of it but cook only what you’ll eat that day. Blanch and freeze the extra. Blanching a small batch of peas or beans doesn’t require a huge cook pot, so it goes quickly. In fact, if you’re steaming or boiling produce for dinner, you can start all of it at once, but remove the stuff to freeze after the correct time passes for blanching.