Excess cucumbers can be sliced and pickled with onions.
Preserving & fermented

Zero waste: cucumbers

Cornersmith duo Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards are all about reducing food waste. Here are their ideas for using excess cucumbers.

Indigenous ingredients use by Norie
Your garden harvest

Local flavours

In her new book Mabu Mabu, First Nations chef Nornie Bero explores a wonderful array of native foods and flavours. 

Bottles tomatoes all ready to be put aside for winter.
Preserving & fermented

Storing harvests for winter

Linda Cockburn writes about different ways to preserve your summer harvests, such as tomatoes, so you can keep on enjoying the results of all your hard work in winter.

Wild greens galette
Recipes

Wild greens galette

Summer or winter, this recipe from Kirsten Bradley and Nick Ritar makes use of wild greens such as dandelion, chickweed and mallow - or pick greens from your garden!

Preserving tomatoes
Recipes

Make the most of your tomato harvest

With a tomato harvest, you'll find you have one of the easiest and most flavoursome crops that you can eat fresh, or preserve for later, writes Helen McKerral.

Spring chicken soup
Your garden harvest

Spring chicken soup

It may be called 'Spring Chicken Soup' but this recipe from Grown & Gathered by Lentil and Matt Purbrick is too scrumptious to not use year-round. Enjoy!

Kale & Borlotti Bean Soup
Your garden harvest

Kale & Borlotti Bean Soup

Sophie Hansen's winters are long and cold, which means she likes to cook plenty of warm, nourishing food like this hearty soup.

Rose hips.
Your garden harvest

Rose hips

Roses are usually grown for their flowers, but many roses will also produce brightly coloured hips in autumn.

Finding fungi in the wild
Your garden harvest

Finding fungi in the wild

Mushroom foraging is a fun activity in autumn but do it safely with help from experts. Taking a course or foraging with a guide is best.

Dehydrating food from The Artisan Kitchen by James Strawbridge
Your garden harvest

Dehydrating food

How to preserve food and extend your harvest by dehydrating your fruit and veg.

Hanging herbs on clothes horse
Your garden harvest

How to dry herbs

Summer's a great time to dry herbs. It's also the time when most of them should be harvested. Here's how to do it.

Justin Russell's pickled gherkins
Your garden harvest

Pickled gherkins

Experiencing a cucumber glut in your garden? That's not such a bad thing, even if you have heaps in your patch. Our advice? Start pickling!