Homegrown Pantry: A Gardener’s Guide to Selecting the Best Varieties & Planting the Perfect Amounts for What You Want to Eat Year-Round

A must have for any serious grower and preserver. Every reasonable vegetable and process is discussed. Fabulous layout and great pictures help to get one inspired and ready to "put up" the harvest from your garden. A lot of information for a good price.

I have been using this book for this years planting. I’ve started from seeds and have been learning what pests to watch for and how to deal with them. The harvest and various preserving methods don’t look to hard to do. There are good instructions and lots of information. Good book.

Barbara Pleasant's writing is very accessible and engaging. This is a really excellent resource for beginning to journeyman gardeners and homesteaders. The pictures were incredibly helpful, showing various fresh, dried, and preserved fruits and vegetables, as well as showing the steps in preserving them. As a relatively inexperienced gardener, I especially appreciated the "how many to grow" suggestions, which gave me a great baseline for how much of each kind of plant to grow to enjoy fresh or to have enough to preserve as well. I'm going to combine her suggestions with those in Square Foot Gardening to make the most of my small yard and growing space.

Glad to have this book, has a lot of good information

I’m a beginner gardener, looking to preserve food and grow vegetables. This book has been a huge help on the yields needed and how to use what’ve grown.

I have a lot of gardening books and a lot of experience gardening. Frankly, I've been thinking I couldn't really learn much from gardening books at this point but this book proved me wrong. It is very interesting and has information in it that is hard to find in other books. I'm too lazy to write much other than to say that Barbara Pleasant deserves her good reputation among gardeners and she has done a great job with this book. It is packed with practical information on deciding how much to grow, how to grow, and how to preserve your produce.

Love this book as a new gardener. It explains in depth about each plant, how many to plant per person, how to can it and even has recipes. It’s a very well rounded gardening book.

Useful information, not just for beginners.

The book covers so much: how to grow your veggies in a nutshell (per veggie!), what types of preservation works better to which type of veggie (freezing, canning, drying, fermenting), how to store them without processing (cabbage, kohlrabi, potatoes, garlic, onions, etc.). I was marveled at the way it is all explained in an easy language, lots of beautiful pictures, tons of step-by-step information. A must-have for any homesteader or just the enthusiasts of saving delicious fresh food from their favorite organic markets while still preserving some nutrients.

My garden - information on different topics.

I borrowed this book from the library and decided to buy it cause it such a good book that I know we will go back to it every year when it’s time to make our garden