By Barbara Doyen
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First tagged by Debbie
Customer tags: gardening, food preservation, food storage, seed saving
Review & Description
From asparagus through zucchini, this book has it all. Suitable for both beginners and experts, it’s the perfect resource for anyone engaged in America’ #1 hobby: gardening. Not only will you learn how to grow your own farm-fresh vegetables, The Farmer’s Wife will tell you what to do with all the produce you harvest!
In the garden, you’ll learn how to:
· Find space for vegetables in your landscape, or even on your patio in pots.
· Select the varieties that are right for your tastes, needs, and growing season
· Avoid mistaking seeds and seedlings for weeds (with illustrations)
· Chart the optimal indoor and outdoor planting times for your area
· Rotate your crops and/or sow a second crop during your growing season
· Repel deer and other pests using inexpensive methods that work every time
· Get a jump on harvest using generations-old farmer’s wife tricks
· How to care for the garden after the growing season is over
For each vegetable, you’ll know:
· What plant varieties to grow in your area
· When to begin harvest
· How to go about the harvest
· Yield expectations for each vegetable
· How to store each kind of fresh produce
· How to quickly freeze each vegetable for later use
In the kitchen, you’ll get hundreds of fast, easy and absolutely delicious recipes for serving your harvest. In addition, you’ll have:
· Specific preparation tips and cooking methods for each vegetable including boiling, steaming, baking, broiling, stir-frying and grilling
· Many quick, easy methods for dressing up plain vegetables
· Lists of herbs, spices, and other seasonings that go well with each vegetable Read more
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