Preserve the abundance from your garden by canning tomatillos using a water bath canner or pressure canner, offering an easy way to preserve whole tomatillos for year-round enjoyment.

Tomatillos, also known as husk tomatoes, are very productive plants. They can produce hundreds of fruit per plant in a season. Even in my zone 5 garden, I usually start harvesting in mid-July, and the plants continue to grow and produce more fruit until fall frost.

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Learn how to preserve the bounty of your homegrown sweet peppers with our step-by-step guide to canning roasted bell peppers. Enjoy that garden-fresh goodness all year long!

Whether your garden has yielded a bountiful harvest or you’ve stocked up at your local farmers market, pressure canning peppers is a delicious way to preserve them into shelf stable jars.

This guide will take you through the process of preserving roasted bell peppers so you can enjoy them long after harvest season ends.

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Sweet potatoes are a favorite side dish during the holidays, but they can also be preserved and enjoyed all year long. By canning sweet potatoes, you’ll have them on hand for all your favorite recipes.

Sweet potatoes are not a crop that we can grow in abundance in our garden every year. We don’t have the space, the warmth, or the full sun the plants require to thrive. However, I do stock up at the fall farmers’ markets and store them in our unheated basement over winter.

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Canning beets is a great way to preserve them so that they last for a long time on your food storage shelves. You can either can them whole, sliced, or cubed. Learn how to can beets with this pressure canning tutorial.

Beets are a root vegetable that is easy to grow in the vegetable garden during the cool seasons of spring and fall. The plants don’t need special treatment and are rarely bothered by pests.

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There is nothing like the flavor of freshly harvested corn. Take advantage of the abundance of crisp sweet corn and preserve it for winter meals. Learn how to can corn into shelf stable jars for your pantry food storage.

Canned corn can be used in so many ways, including tossed in salads, added to soups, stews, and chills, and simply buttered and served as a side dish.

We don’t grow corn because it takes up a lot of space in the garden.

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