Then the girls divorced and moved in with their kids, so we made a basement apartment, and had a refrigerator with a freezer there too.
When we started gardening, we bought an upright freezer, but right after the warranty, was gone it quit, and repair man couldn't find anything wrong with it. So after it quit and ruined stuff a couple of more times, we unplugged it, bought a Walmart small chest style freezer, and started putting up stuff by canning or dehydrating.
I understand the willingness or lack there of. When Hubby gets too ambitious with the garden, I just tell him there's no way babe - you gotta do the preps, and I'll finish it up.
I try to get him to do succession cropping, but he just plants big humongous amounts all at the same time, so it really overburdens when it comes time to preserve it.
Sounds like a challenge!
I have a daughter whose husband “farmer” Plants and nothing grows to maturity...no weeding and expecting sprinkler system to do the watering is a near total loss each time...but he tries again something different...Lettuce was good though!
Corn stalks were just enough for fall decorating. No ears over 1 inch around. Potatoes and other things eaten by bugs.
I took over care of the tomato plants ( in Pots) one summer when I visited, and watered and fertilized etc, until we had more than we could eat. The few jars that I canned sat on the shelf to decorate the pantry until after Christmas when she decided to use them.
I have one tomato plant here in Florida this year...First flowers were eaten overnight so now the next ones are small tomatoes, getting the dish detergent treatment, and it seems to be working...flowers I have everywhere!