Ah. You and Leo are definitely serious plant people, and I particularly enjoy your flower bed gardening.
Hmm, well, it's an eating garden. Not so much for keeping/storing. I love to give away veggies to friends. It's so funny: in this community, people just leave zucchinis everywhere you go. I mean on counters at the post office, in the bookstore, anywhere.
The only keeping I do with any success is roasting tomato stuff and freezing the pulp as soup or sauce, and cold storage of whole potatoes and garlic. I'm interested in dehydrator drying, and I think I'll experiment this summer with fruits.
We've reduced the garden size over the years, which is much better than having so much waste. Right now the arrangement is two main beds. The old man whose farm it was planted probably an acre just for the family veggie garden, so by that standard we are total punks.
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Here too, mildest winter on record. Of course: we finally bought a snow blade and chains for the garden tractor. Kept all the bad weather away!