Every year I spend a lot of time harvesting vegetables from the garden and trying to use them all, but I am never very successful. I have a pretty big garden and there is always a glut of something or other and anything I can't give away I tend to put into the fridge and then wait till it goes rotten before throwing it out. There is a limit to how many times a week you can eat huge bowls of peas, beans etc.....
This year I invested in a new toy to help me to freeze as much produce as I can and therefore be able to use it throughout the year rather than just for a few months. It is a vacuum pack machine and so far I have managed to keep on top of the peas, beans and broad beans by freezing any that I can't use within one day. I'm hoping that I will actually use the produce throughout the year and not find it in the bottom of the freezer 3 years later.... something that my mother is very good at! I'm also hoping Santa has heard my pleas for a bigger freezer that I might actually be able to organise so things don't just disappear into the abyss...
I'd love to hear how well the produce holds up in the freezer. If I can find canning supplies I'm going to try preserving some of my glut that way.
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