Storing & Preserving...
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Canning and Bottling Fruit
The preservation of fruit by bottling or canning is a common way to manage large harvests and keep you in fruit throughout the winter months. The term ‘canning’ is an...
Drying Fruit From Your Garden
Drying fruits from your garden is a safe and convenient way of preserving your crop and dealing with gluts. Dried fruits make a great snack on their own or they can be...
Freezing Your Fruit
Freezing is a quick and easy way to preserve your fruit and provides an alternative to bottling and drying it. This method helps retain more of the fruit’s nutrients...
Ideal Containers to Store Fruit
Storing fruit is a great way to prolong the season and avoid having to eat all your fruit at the same time. If you have a particularly large harvest, or glut, in any one...
Original Gift Ideas Using Fruit
Forget the boring fruit basket – there are fantastic, inventive, delightful gifts you can make from fruit that will thrill your recipients and yet are easy and fun...
Pickles, Relishes, Jams and Preserves
One of the best things about growing your own fruit is that you normally get a far bigger harvest than you need. While it’s always good to share your...
Storing Fruit
If you grow your own fruit you may be interested in storing some of it for use later on. This could be because all of your fruit becomes ripe all at the same time or...
