Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round

by Barbara Pleasant

Now that you’ve mastered gardening basics, you want to enjoy your bounty year-round, right? Homegrown Pantry picks up where beginning gardening books leave off, with in-depth profiles of the 55 most popular crops — including beans, beets, squash, tomatoes, and much more — to keep your pantry stocked throughout the year. Each vegetable profile highlights how many plants to grow for a year’s worth of eating, and which storage methods work best for specific varieties. Author Barbara Pleasant culls tips from decades of her own gardening experience and from growers across North America to offer planting, care, and harvesting refreshers for every region and each vegetable. 

Foreword INDIES Silver Award Winner
GWA Media Awards Silver Award Winner

Genres: Gardening, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Reference, Food

328 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2017

Reviews

[Rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am loving Plant to Preserve - Home Grown Pantry. It is a blend of gardening advice, insect protection, harvest information and full blown preservation of your harvest. I was surprised at some of the suggestions, like storing potatoes in open boxes under your bed - who would have thought about that as being a great, cool, dark place for produce! The produce pages include an image, a description of the vegetable or fruit with quantity per person per season suggestion. Then, Barbara Pleasant provides tips on the best types of vegetable for spring and fall crops, plus how to grow and protect the vegetables. To wrap it up, instructions are given concerning harvesting, fresh storage, fermented, dehydrated, canned, frozen, wined and dined and any other ways of using our wonderful crops and fruits including recipes. The book features beautiful images and easy to understand information, this will be my go-to reference book. Full Disclosure: I was allowed to read a copy of this book for free as a member of NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased review. The opinions I have expressed are my own and I was not influenced to give a positive review.

[Mary Jo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very beautiful book, the author has covered all the basics in growing, preserving, storing, and preparing vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Just the photographs make this book worth every penny! If you want a good, basic, simply written book on how to stock your pantry, this is it!

[Judy · Rating 5 out of 5]

With snow already falling in Montana, I am dreaming of warmer climes and gardening. This is a book I fell in love with. Great ideas and suggestions for how much to plant of what vegetables in my garden. Covering not only vegetables but fruit and herbs, this is a must-have for my bookshelf.

[spilk]

Great info on crops and how to grow them and then preserve them

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exactly as advertised - suggestions for "selecting the best varieties & planting the perfect amounts" as well as organic growing tips, preservation methods and beautiful pictures.

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, need to buy this one!