Favorite Vegetables to Grow & Preserve

Favorite Vegetables to Grow & Preserve Meg Cowden shares her favorite vegetables to grow, eat & preserve to extend her garden harvest each year. Grow vegetables you can also preserve

Meg Cowden’s spends a lot of time in her Minnesota vegetable garden. Using a variety of succession planting techniques, her goal is to grow enough food to feed and preserve for her family. Learn about how she maximizes her harvest with succession planting. Meg plants a variety of vegetables in her garden every season and I asked her to share a few plants that she loves to grow, eat and preserve from her garden each year. Read on for some of her recommendations.

Cranberry bean is a stunning multi-purposed dry bean. Seeds can be sown every 2 weeks from early spring to midsummer for a continual harvest. This variety is a mix between a bush bean and a pole bean: Plants don’t have tendrils to climb trellises, but they grow up to 6 feet tall and will need to be staked using a trellis like the one above for support. Just guide the beans up your desired structure.

Cranberry beans are typically grown as a shelling bean, they can also be harvested immature and eaten fresh as a string bean. For drying and storage for later use, allow the pods to turn brown on the plant. Cranberry beans mature in 70 to 80 days.

Seed Source: Territorial Seed Company, 800-626-0866

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Meg describes ‘Tom Thumb’ corn as an “adorable, fun and easy-to-grow crop that is smaller in size and matures quickly.” ‘Tom Thumb’ grows only 3 feet tall and produces a classic yellow kernel. These plants need full