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

[cambourne7]

Hi Guys,

I am looking for a book so that i can learn how to store all my fruit and veg next year

I have seen How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency on amazon for £5 and i thought i looks like just the ticket any recomendations?

I also thought that

The "Good Housekeeping" Complete Book of Preserves (Good Housekeeping) (Hardcover)  might be a good beginers book as its only £6

any thoughts?

Cambourne7

[cambourne7]

[kt.]

I have started a topic in the NEWS section called The Vegetable & Herb Expert
This is a book I bought 2 days ago. It has everything you wish to know about storing. The book lists each individual vegetable.

One section on each veg is Harvesting. This tells you how to store, in what to store veg in, and how long it should keep. It is also laid out in laments terms and easy to follow guides.

Book cost me £7.99, have read the first half already! I believe this will more than suffice for what you want. Ideal. ;)

[kt.]

Almost forgot: the book only covers veg & herbs but there is another in the same series called The Fruit Expert, same author.

All in all there are 20 various gardening books by the same author.

[manicscousers]

if you're really in to preserving your produce, cambourne, preserving by Oded Schwartz is worth a look, if you can get it cheap, he preserves everything including meat, cheese, fish, making curds, chutneys out of everything you can think of, how to make your own flavoured oils, sauces, he's an 'Israeli, who feels that pickling is in his blood', worth a look,?,
also my 'Vegetable gardener's bible by Edward C Smith has loads on storing vegetables, HE HAS A ROOT CELLAR, lucky beggar !!
anyway, they do for me  :)

[saddad]

That Preserve book is excellent Louise... we have a battered copy from the 70's which is still doing great service. ( I think batter is about the only stain it hasn't got!)

[Mrs Ava]

I will third that preserving book - mum gave it to me a few years back, stains and all and I use it constantly!

I don't have a storing book really as I find with a chest freezer, preserving, cold porch and garage I seem to be able to store everything I need okay.  Also I protect things on the plot to provide me with fruit and veg for as much of the year as possible - for example, my carrots that I dug on Christmas Eve, a variety called Kingston, have a mulch of straw and a layer of fleece over them to keep the worst of the weather off.  They are still going great guns and I should be digging the last as January turns into February.

[Chris Graham]

I have the following from Dr D G Hessayon:

The Greenhouse Expert
The Vegetable and Herb Expert
The Fruit Expert

All great books and provide storing ideas, i am by no means an expert but Dr H sure is.  Loads of great info and i think each book is around £6.99, probably get them cheaper on ebay  ;)

[cambourne7]

thanks for all the updates however i have just broken my car so it now depends on what money i have left after the repair bill   :'(

[supersprout]

I wanted to store veg in the old ways like before freezers ::)
Two books, both American, that turned out to be gems:
Root Cellaring Mike and Nancy Bubel
Canning and Preserving for Dummies (includes drying, water bath, pickles and jams)

next year I'm going to build an outdoor root cellar with STRAW ;D

[kt.]

Click on the link for A4A shop at the top of this page. It takes you to amazon. The book advertised on the first page is:

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency
By Piers Warren
Price:  £4.95

Also, if you buy from there via this site link - I think Dan gets contributions to this site or something.

[kt.]

Forgot to post link for the book :-[

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,88888889/

[daisymay]

I got the WI book of pickles. preserves and chutneys for Christmas. It is FANTASTIC!  ;D

made plum and mulled wine jam the other day, it is delicious! nicest jam I have ever made.....