Harvest & Kitchen

Home-Grown Sweet Potatoes in Small Spaces: Choosing the Roots You Actually Cook

Home-Grown Sweet Potatoes in Small Spaces: Choo...

How to grow sweet potatoes in containers and small beds, harvest and cure the roots, and prepare them in the kitchen, including edible shoot tips.

Home-Grown Sweet Potatoes in Small Spaces: Choo...

How to grow sweet potatoes in containers and small beds, harvest and cure the roots, and prepare them in the kitchen, including edible shoot tips.

Plan a Home Apple Drying Season from Harvest to Jar

Plan a Home Apple Drying Season from Harvest to...

Plan drying home-grown apples as a seasonal sequence: estimate loads, choose firm varieties, slice evenly, dry in consistent batches and store dried fruit properly.

Plan a Home Apple Drying Season from Harvest to...

Plan drying home-grown apples as a seasonal sequence: estimate loads, choose firm varieties, slice evenly, dry in consistent batches and store dried fruit properly.

Drying Garden Herbs Without Losing Their Best Quality

Drying Garden Herbs Without Losing Their Best Q...

Match drying methods to the herb and to the quality that matters: air drying for sturdy herbs, fast warm drying for soft leaves, plus harvest timing and storage.

Drying Garden Herbs Without Losing Their Best Q...

Match drying methods to the herb and to the quality that matters: air drying for sturdy herbs, fast warm drying for soft leaves, plus harvest timing and storage.

Why Gooseberry Crops Ripen Unevenly and How Plant Parts Explain It

Why Gooseberry Crops Ripen Unevenly and How Pla...

Gooseberry harvests ripen unevenly because of spurs, shading, roots and pollination. Learn to read the plant and adjust picking, pruning and watering for better fruit.

Why Gooseberry Crops Ripen Unevenly and How Pla...

Gooseberry harvests ripen unevenly because of spurs, shading, roots and pollination. Learn to read the plant and adjust picking, pruning and watering for better fruit.

Fava Beans and Edible Flowers: Getting the Identity Right Before They Reach the Kitchen

Fava Beans and Edible Flowers: Getting the Iden...

Learn how to confirm edible flower identity by botanical name, grow safe edible-flower crops, harvest and handle them, and serve them with home-grown fava beans.

Fava Beans and Edible Flowers: Getting the Iden...

Learn how to confirm edible flower identity by botanical name, grow safe edible-flower crops, harvest and handle them, and serve them with home-grown fava beans.

Pick a Little Cabbage Every Day: A Traditional Harvest Habit That Still Works

Pick a Little Cabbage Every Day: A Traditional ...

Understand the traditional habit of small daily cabbage harvests: which cabbage types suit leaf picking, when to cut whole heads, and how to clean and cook each picking with good...

Pick a Little Cabbage Every Day: A Traditional ...

Understand the traditional habit of small daily cabbage harvests: which cabbage types suit leaf picking, when to cut whole heads, and how to clean and cook each picking with good...