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Growing a Vegetable Garden with Kids
How to Store
your Kids Garden Produce
Storing Fruit and Vegetables Preserving Fruit and Vegetables
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~ Maya and love growing our own fruit and growing vegetables to eat
~ Most vegetables and fruit ripens at the around summer time resulting
in a lot of excess
~ Preserving our garden produce so that we have lots of yummy vegetables
and fruits throught the winter month is a fun garden to kitchen activity
for kids and adults alike
~ You don't have to be self sufficient byt the taste of yummy homemade
herb oils in winter and a yummy strawberry yam sandwich awakes memories
of lovely summer days spent in the garden
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Storing
Vegetables
Storing Fruit
How to Store your
Kids Garden Produce |
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Benefits
of home grown food
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| Freezing |
Did
you know that the Tomato was actually
a fruit and not a vegetable?
Growing fruit trees is another fun
garden activity for kids if you have the space
~ simple fruit trees can be grown along garden fence walls and trained
up trellis
~ when Growing Vegetables make sure
you grow those varieties that you really love
~ Check the vegetable harvesting times and
make sure you are not on vacation when everything is ready to pick in
late summer
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home grown food has a variety of benefits for kids and adults alike
~ You are what you eat :-)
~ Benefits of Home Grown Food
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freezing produce is quick, easy, cost effective and retains a lot of the
nutrients in your fruit and vegetables
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| Hanging |
Harvesting
Guidelines |
preserving
food - storing food - cooking food
~ hanging is good for vegetable varieties like onions marrows, pumpkins
and squashes
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~What
to watch out for when harvesting your own food
~ Our
Harvesting Tips |
| Gardening
Memories |
Storing
Fruit and Vegetables Preserving Fruit and Vegetables
~ eating bottled fruit used to be my childhood pleasure, sneaking in the
cellar and eating a whole jar of bottled cherries till my tummy hurt- what
a delight |
| Drying |
preserving food - storing food - cooking food
there is 2 kinds of Drying
Dry Storing
~ good for caroots, beetroots, parsnips etc
Actual Drying
~ actual drying removes the moisture out of the vegetables and fruits
and indeed herbs therefore prventing the rotting process ( most fungi, enzymes
and other rotting agents need moisture to do their stuff- remove moisture
and you can preserve the produce)
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| Growing
Fruit |
List
Fruit Vegetable
Fruit Aplphabetical
Growing
Fruit A to Z |
| Growing
Vegetables |
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Grow Vegetables in Containers if you only have a patio or windowsill
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Vegetable List A to Z |
| Bottling |
Kid
Garden Activities |
preserving
food - storing food - cooking food
~ bottling used to be one of the major preserbing techniques before the
use of freezers
~ it is quite time consuming but does result in some yummy preserves
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Garden
Coloring Pages
on a rainy day with no
vegetable gardening in sight try pritning some garden kids activity sheets
Composting
for Kids
Tips for successful composting
your kitchen vegetable surplus |
| Cooking |
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preserving food - storing food - cooking food
~ cooking fruit and vegetables into finished products is another way or
preserving them
~ making chutneys, home made strawberry jam, making cider out of apples
are old favorites
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Gardening with Kids |
Storing
Fruit and Vegetables Preserving Fruit and Vegetables
Tips:
When Harvesting your vegetables and fruit and herbs see that you also harvest
some vegetable seeds,flower seed,herb seeds and fruit seed ready to grown
new annuals in the next season
~ Vegetable Seeds are easy to harvest
, they need a good drying in a warm space so they dont get moldy
~ Vegetable Seeds can then be stored ready for next year
~ Herb Seed harvesting is easy too - wait til the flowers are in
full bloom, then let them ripen t collect the herb seeds when they are ready
~ Herb Seeds can be used the next year or sherb seeds can aslo be started
early in the greenhouse
~ Some Herb Seed varieties are self
seeding, meaning once the plant releases it seed and it falls to the groung
it will get buried and appear again in the next year
We
hope you enjoy our little corner on the web and ideas for Storing Fruit
and Vegetables Preserving Fruit and Vegetables
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