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Savor the Flavor
The best way to preserve the top ten garden vegetables.By Cindy Shapton
Freezing, canning or dehydrating vegetables is the next best thing to gathering them fresh from the kitchen garden on a warm sunny day. It takes a little extra work and planning during an already busy time of the gardening season, but oh what a joy to make a delicious vegetable soup using your garden's bounty on a cold winter's day.
The great thing about growing your own vegetables is that you can harvest at the peak of freshness, which gives you more nutrition, flavor and the very best end product when you freeze, can or dehydrate. Harvest after a couple of sunny days to ensure the most vitamin C content. Growing and preserving home-grown vegetables gives you piece of mind because you know where they have been and can control what, if anything, is sprayed on or added to the soil.
There are many vegetables in the kitchen garden worthy of "putting up" for winter but I will give you a list of my family's top ten and based on my experience the best way to preserve them.
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