• MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Ya gotta pickle and dehydrate. Last time I had room for a garden I got the preservation and storage down in my last season.

    Buy a dehydrator, never make jerky in it, you’ll never get the smell out. Works great for beans, onions and carrots.

    There’s not much besides lettuce and tomatoes you can’t pickle out of a temperate zone type garden.

    I was eating well well into winter.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      I have a 12-tray Cabellas dehydrator and have made loads of jerky. I even bought a slicer.

      I’ve pickeled, I’ve helped my mother can back in the day.

      I love my neighbors, but fuck no, that’s WAY too much work.

      At my last house I did hydroponic swiss shard. I’m thinking about cranking that up inside this winter.

      I tried lettuce, but could never get it to harden off. as soon as I plucked the leaves they just went limp, it was like they were inflated by the water.