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Grow your own, eat your own

I just loved looking at the pictures in this book. A great resource packed with practical easy to follow advice and ideas on how to grow, use and store fruit and vegetables. I’m going to try making feijoa liqueur based on the tips in this book. Sounds easy enough!
Kirsten, Easy Green Living

It is one thing to produce tomatoes or pumpkins – or any other fruit or vegetable for pleasure, or for the table, as it comes into season, but it becomes another when you realise that most crops in the garden arrive in gluts with no more to be had for another year – unless you do something about it. This book is about how to make the best use of your highly nutritious home-grown produce. The first part begins in the garden, showing you how to achieve a more continuous crop as well as how to extend your harvest. Then Bob steps into the kitchen to show you the best way to preserve and cook your crop by bottling, drying, jamming, smoking as well as how best to store. Bob uses his intimate and comprehensive knowledge of each crop to advise you on how best to treat them – how, for example, the natural sweetness and acidity of fruit means that they retain more moisture when dried than vegetables as well as tips on how to maximising flavour, for instance, by rehydrating pulses in herb-flavoured water.

Source:Auckland City Libraries