Harvest glut method splitter
One primary crop, how much is on the counter, and how many days it stays decent if you do nothing. The splitter suggests a share for eat fresh now, freeze, dry, can, and cellar-if — only for gear you said you have. Ranges overlap on purpose. This is a counter sketch, not a tested canning time.
Calm framing: a glut is a logistics problem. Water-bath is not a personality. Pressure canning is not a Saturday hobby you invent while fruit softens. When the gear does not match the crop, the honest line is give some away, cook it down, or accept the loss — not a new jar technique.
Primary crop (one)
Pile, clock, and gear
Pounds or quarts of this one crop — not the whole garden.
Quarts convert with a soft pounds-per-quart factor. Herbs are especially light.
1–14. Counter life if you leave it alone — not freezer life.
“Some” caps this crop around 12 lb. “Lots” around 40 lb — the rest still needs a plan.
Oven batches are slow. Do not schedule 30 lb of leather for one evening.
Water-bath is for high-acid, tested recipes. It is not for low-acid vegetables.
A crisper buys days or a few weeks. A cellar is for roots and firm fruit — not ripe tomatoes.
Soft CTA needs a yard or larger. The split itself works anywhere.
Pressure canning is not a weekend miracle. Soft CTA skips browsing and weekend-miracle.