Preserving - Fine Gardening
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Design
How to Make Beautiful Botanical Note Cards with Pressed Flowers
You can create unique note cards with flowers and leaves from your garden. These botanical cards are easy and fun to make. With just a little bit of preparation and…
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Kitchen Gardening
Perfect Pickled Peppers: Recipes for the Garden
Pepper plants will keep producing as long as you keep picking the produce. Pickling is an easy way to preserve the flavor of freshly picked peppers.
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Article
Keegan’s Maryland Garden
Today we’re visiting with Keegan Clifford, who is a vegetable gardener extraordinaire, producing huge amounts of beautiful produce. Keegan lives in Middletown, Maryland (Zone 7), a small town with just…
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How-To
How to Grow Tasty Tomatoes From Seed
A long-standing myth among tomato lovers is that home-grown tomatoes taste the best. But it’s the variety of the tomatoes that actually influences the taste, not whether they’re grown on…
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Kitchen Gardening
Freezer Tips for Fresh Produce
Instead of canning, here are some easy methods for freezing some of your end-of-the season fruits and vegetables. A few minutes spent freezing now, means garden-fresh meals in the middle…
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How-To
Pretty Pickled Beets
Makes 4 pints 6 lb. small Chioggia or golden beets 2 cups white wine vinegar 2 cups sugar 6 cups thinly sliced red onion 1⁄4 cup pickling spice 12 whole…
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Kitchen Gardening
Make Fresh-Tasting Fruit Preserves
It’s a cold January morning, wind blowing, rain streaming in sheets down the windows. I’m settled at the table with open newspaper and my usual breakfast—strong coffee with steamed milk…
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Kitchen Gardening
3 Easy Ways to Preserve the Herbs
Cooler nighttime temperatures mean the end is near to another vegetable gardening season. Instead of letting those beautiful culinary herbs go to seed, take a few minutes to snip and…
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Article
5 Easy Ideas for Preserving Peppers
Get them while they're hot! It's time for vegetable gardeners to get busy picking and preserving their peppers. Here are some simple ways for saving the harvest to enjoy this…
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How-To
Fast-Growing Vegetable Varieties for Short-Season Regions
Gardening in regions with cool, short summers like the Pacific Northwest and northern New England can create challenging conditions for heat-loving crops. For folks in the extreme South, heat can…