The Preserving Garden is a stylishly illustrated guide on how to use garden produce to provide food all year round. Learn how to make a veggie patch or plant fruit trees in any space – including where to begin, when to plant and how to care for your garden. From planting to preserving, each profile is accompanied with easy-to-follow recipes that allow you to make the most of your homegrown produce throughout the year. Featuring forty-three plant profiles with growing notes for starting or improving your garden, learn how fruit tree maintenance, pollination, crop rotation, composting and soil pH can help create regular and abundant harvests. The book includes scalable recipes and techniques for chutneys, relishes, jams, jellies, marmalades, bottling and drying. Make the most of your homegrown produce by pureeing tomatoes for sauces, fermenting cabbage for sauerkraut, drying cherries to use in muffins and many more.