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Signed up for a CSA, what should I put in my garden.
We signed up for a CSA this year and so we will be getting a good amount of produce bi-weekly during the spring/summer/fall season. We also have a garden and I would like to continue with it but I don't want an overload of stuff that will go to waste.
I'm hoping to freeze and possibly can stuff but NEVER did this before.
What is the easiest vegtable to freeze and/or can?
Re: Signed up for a CSA, what should I put in my garden.
You could do Salsa Garden (variety of peppers and tomatoes+cilantro and onions).
It's easy to can. While you're at it, you can also can pasta sauce and tomato paste.
Basil also freezes well (in ice cube trays).
Corn and peas also freeze, but you would need a huge quantities. My peas dont usually make it into the house
Tomatoes for sure. You can can them or freeze the puree or sauce very nicely. All herbs cause you can dry them beautifully and the delivers don't usually include herbs.
I second the corn, but I find it such a pain and a mess to grow.
I was going to suggest tomatoes and herbs too.
I made oodles of tomato sauce last year. Didn't even bother to peel it at the end and it came out fine. Just threw them all in the blender. AMAZING taste from garden tomatoes.
I second the idea of a salsa garden. Tomatoes are fairly easy, as are onions and hot peppers. Regular bell peppers are pretty easy as well.
Green beans can well, but they're quite labor-intensive in the planting/picking process. Cucumbers are easy to grow, if you think you might be up for pickling them (word of warning on that, though: your entire house WILL smell of pickling brine if you go that route).
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Thank you for posting this; I've been wondering the same thing.
What I can tell you is that we got a lot of tomatoes from the CSA last year but they were mostly the heirloom varieties. I missed having just basic red tomatoes. Also when we got berries it was never big quantities. I think they are easy to freeze.
Great ideas!! Thank you. : )