{"id":59987,"date":"2021-10-19T06:31:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59987"},"modified":"2021-10-19T06:31:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:31:13","slug":"2-ways-to-preserve-leafy-greens-from-your-veggie-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59987","title":{"rendered":"2 Ways to Preserve Leafy Greens From Your Veggie Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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2 Ways to Preserve Leafy Greens From Your Veggie Garden<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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In my experience, leafy greens are among the easiest kinds of veggies to grow. But they don\u2019t keep for very long and after you\u2019ve given basketfuls of them to your friends and eaten stir-fried leafy greens, leafy greens in soups, in stews, and added to salads, and they\u2019re still coming, what do you do with them next?<\/i><\/p>\n

Below is a basket of produce from our\u00a0modular veggie garden<\/u><\/a>. I\u2019ve lost count of how many of these I\u2019ve brought to the kitchen or given as return gifts to friends in exchange for music lessons, fruit, preserves, and general good-will.<\/p>\n

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But lately I\u2019m finding that I even have more green leaves than I can reasonably give away. Here are two ideas for preserving leafy greens when this happens to you. The first is a bit of an experiment. The second is a tried and true favourite in my kitchen.<\/p>\n

The experiment: can you make sauerkraut with green cabbages that haven\u2019t formed heads?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There are quite a number of cabbages like this one in the garden that haven\u2019t had time to form heads yet and are starting to get a bit chewed by caterpillars. We\u2019ve been eating the outer leaves from them for a while but yesterday I decided to harvest some whole cabbages and use them to make \u2018kraut, even though they haven\u2019t headed yet.<\/p>\n

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  • I\u2019m not certain they will head at all; our hot, dry weather is approaching and they may not have time to form heads before they think about going to seed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    \u00a0Image by author 2 Ways to Preserve Leafy Greens From Your Veggie Garden In my experience, leafy greens are among the easiest kinds of veggies to grow. But they don\u2019t keep for very long and after you\u2019ve given basketfuls of them to your friends and eaten stir-fried leafy greens, leafy greens in soups, in stews, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5969,8747,9656,22072,9358],"class_list":["post-59987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food-gardening","tag-food-preservation","tag-food-storage","tag-kate-martignier","tag-permaculture-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59988,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59987\/revisions\/59988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}