Garden Planner Pro Blog
Food Preservation
Guides and how-tos from the Garden Planner Pro blog on food preservation.
4 posts
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No Root Cellar? Your Potatoes and Onions Want Opposite Rooms
Potatoes want cold and damp, onions want cool and dry, squash wants neither. How to find three storage climates in an ordinary house, and what rots when you don't.
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Freshly Dug Sweet Potatoes Taste Like Cardboard. The Week After Is What Fixes That.
Sweet potatoes are not sweet the day you dig them. What happens in the warm week afterward is what makes them worth growing, and most gardeners skip it.
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Your Winter Squash Will Rot by Thanksgiving Because of How You Cut It Off the Vine
Squash that goes soft in November was lost the day you picked it. How to tell when it's ripe, how to cut it, and the one type you should never warm-cure.
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Your Onions Rot in Storage Because of What You Did the Week You Pulled Them
Onions that go soft at the neck in November were lost back in August. How to cure onions and garlic properly, what to sort out, and where to keep them.
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