Plan for surplus | Easy Edibles

by jill

There’s no guarantee you will have a surplus of any sort, even using Sheri’s book. In a good year, you will be able to harvest all you grow and make use of it. Maybe there will be more than you can eat, and you will have time and effort to preserve the excess appropriately. Sometimes, for any number of reasons, you will have more than you can use. Sometimes you will have a surplus not because the weather and the soil and everything combined perfectly, but simply because you planted too much. So you should always give thought to how you want to plant your garden, and what you want to grow and how much of each you might hope for. But maybe, things were going to plan, until everything ripened the day before you were due to go away on vacation. So another way to look at it might to be speak with a local food bank or pantry, and ask what they will need. As we said, you can’t guarantee them you will have a surplus, but if you plant the right vegetables, then on the occasions you do, then you know they will be able to make good use of it. Two good sources of information on local food banks are