How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency
Now in its third edition, this is the ultimate guide to becoming self-sufficient all year round by storing your garden produce.

Even half-acre plots can grow enough to feed a family of four for an entire year, yet with most produce ready to harvest in the summer and autumn, many gardeners struggle to use all of their fresh fruit and vegetables before it spoils. With proper storage techniques, there's no need for any of your hard work to go to waste, and you can enjoy home-grown goodness all year-round while saving money, lowering your food miles and avoiding the plastic packaging of a typical supermarket shop.

Jam-packed with creative storage techniques and 92 delicious recipes, How to Store Your Garden Produce is beautifully organised to showcase the best ways to preserve your produce, including dehydrating, freezing, fermenting and pickling. Illustrated with aspirational photographs throughout, the new edition features a useful A–Z of garden produce, with each entry detailing up-to-date recommended varieties, improved storage methods and vegan alternatives in recipes to make the most of your harvests.

From strawberry wine and peach chutney to mushroom ketchup and celeriac soup, learn simple and enjoyable techniques for preserving your produce with this handy guide.

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How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency
Now in its third edition, this is the ultimate guide to becoming self-sufficient all year round by storing your garden produce.

Even half-acre plots can grow enough to feed a family of four for an entire year, yet with most produce ready to harvest in the summer and autumn, many gardeners struggle to use all of their fresh fruit and vegetables before it spoils. With proper storage techniques, there's no need for any of your hard work to go to waste, and you can enjoy home-grown goodness all year-round while saving money, lowering your food miles and avoiding the plastic packaging of a typical supermarket shop.

Jam-packed with creative storage techniques and 92 delicious recipes, How to Store Your Garden Produce is beautifully organised to showcase the best ways to preserve your produce, including dehydrating, freezing, fermenting and pickling. Illustrated with aspirational photographs throughout, the new edition features a useful A–Z of garden produce, with each entry detailing up-to-date recommended varieties, improved storage methods and vegan alternatives in recipes to make the most of your harvests.

From strawberry wine and peach chutney to mushroom ketchup and celeriac soup, learn simple and enjoyable techniques for preserving your produce with this handy guide.

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How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

by Piers Warren
How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency

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Overview

Now in its third edition, this is the ultimate guide to becoming self-sufficient all year round by storing your garden produce.

Even half-acre plots can grow enough to feed a family of four for an entire year, yet with most produce ready to harvest in the summer and autumn, many gardeners struggle to use all of their fresh fruit and vegetables before it spoils. With proper storage techniques, there's no need for any of your hard work to go to waste, and you can enjoy home-grown goodness all year-round while saving money, lowering your food miles and avoiding the plastic packaging of a typical supermarket shop.

Jam-packed with creative storage techniques and 92 delicious recipes, How to Store Your Garden Produce is beautifully organised to showcase the best ways to preserve your produce, including dehydrating, freezing, fermenting and pickling. Illustrated with aspirational photographs throughout, the new edition features a useful A–Z of garden produce, with each entry detailing up-to-date recommended varieties, improved storage methods and vegan alternatives in recipes to make the most of your harvests.

From strawberry wine and peach chutney to mushroom ketchup and celeriac soup, learn simple and enjoyable techniques for preserving your produce with this handy guide.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399416573
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Publication date: 08/05/2025
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Piers Warren grows all manner of fruit and vegetables in his garden and greenhouse. As well as being an author of several books and many magazine articles, he also teaches wildlife film-making. He is very experienced in running a smallholding and is keen to promote organic principles, sustainability and green thinking. He lives near Norwich.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: 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 Two: The Produce

Apples

Artichokes – globe

Artichokes – Jerusalem

Asparagus

Aubergines

Beans – broad

Beans – French

Beans – runner

Beetroot

Blackberries

Blackcurrants, redcurrants and whitecurrants, jostaberries and chokeberries

Broccoli – purple sprouting

Brussels sprouts

Cabbages

Calabrese

Carrots

Cauliflowers

Celeriac

Celery

Chard

Cherries

Chicory

Cucumbers

Endive

Fennel

Figs

Garlic

Gooseberries

Grapes

Herbs

Horseradish

Kale

Kohl rabi

Leeks

Lettuces

Medlars

Melons

Mulberries

Mushrooms and other edible fungi

Nuts

Okra

Onions

Parsnips

Peaches, nectarines and apricots

Pears

Peas, sugarsnap peas and mangetout

Peppers – sweet and chilli

Plums, greengages and damsons

Potatoes

Quinces

Radishes

Raspberries, loganberries, tayberries and boysenberries

Rhubarb

Salsify and scorzonera

Spinach

Squashes – summer

Squashes – winter

Strawberries

Swedes

Sweetcorn

Tomatoes

Turnips

Useful resources

Acknowledgements

Photo credits

Main index

Index of recipes

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