Recipes & Edibles
Let the culinary experts at My Garden Life help you bring the joy of gardening into your kitchen with easy to follow, delicious recipes using all of your garden favorites.
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Canned Apple Pie Filling
This delicious homemade filling can be used to make pies, a quick cobbler, crisp or even as a filling for coffee cake.

Apple Butter Recipe for Canning
Canned apple butter is incredibly versatile. Use it to spice up breads, hot cereals, waffles and pancakes. Apple butter is also delicious used as a condiment or glaze for pork and chicken. Slather it on a ham or turkey sandwich to create a sweet-savory treat!

Applesauce Canning Recipe
Applesauce is one of the easiest ways to preserve apples. Enjoy it as a side dish or use it as a healthy ingredient in a variety of recipes.

Preserving Your Apple Harvest
The gardener who grows one or two apple trees is often faced with the happy problem of having a lot of apples. Luckily, kitchen technology and several hundred years of apple cultivation allow today’s growers to preserve the overage. We have three recipes for canning apples that will delight apple growers and eaters.

Guide to Harvesting, Curing and Storing Onions
A good harvest of homegrown onions provides many more bulbs than you can use straight away. Thankfully, it’s easy to store them in good condition for three to twelve months, so long as a few simple steps are followed.

Edible Plants for the Flower Garden
Learn all about edible plants you can add to your flower garden. They look good enough to eat and taste good enough to eat!

Best Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables
Whether you’re growing fruits and vegetables yourself, picking them up from the farmers’ market or buying them at the grocery store, wash them. We have tips for washing fruits and veggies correctly, so they are safe to eat.

Pests and Diseases of Cucumbers
Cucumbers are generally easy to grow, but there are some things that can ruin your harvest. We’ll show you how to identify and treat common insects and diseases that affect cucumber plants.

When to Harvest Garden Vegetables
Learn when and how to harvest twenty of your vegetable garden favorites.

How to Make Horehound Candy
Horehound is an easy to grow perennial plant that has been used as a therapeutic herb for centuries. Homemade horehound candies also double as soothing throat lozenges!

Grilled Zucchini Squash
This is a quick, easy-to-prepare recipe with sliced zucchini and a few basic herbs.

7 Tips for Growing Exquisite Potatoes
Potatoes are a great crop for home gardeners because they are easy to grow and have many uses. Learn to grow your own potatoes with tips on choosing a location, planting, hilling, watering and harvesting.