Preserve Your Allotment Harvest
Never Waste a Single Thing You Grow
Every allotment holder knows the feeling — you've worked hard all season and suddenly everything is ready at once. Courgettes everywhere. More tomatoes than you can possibly eat. Herbs bolting before you've had a chance to use them.
The Ezidri FD1000 food dehydrator is the allotment holder's secret weapon. Preserve your entire harvest quickly, naturally and without waste — and enjoy the fruits of your labour all year round.
Why Dehydrate Your Allotment Produce?
Preserve the glut
When everything ripens at once, dehydrating lets you process large quantities quickly and store them for months without any of the faff of bottling or freezing.
Retain nutrients naturally
Unlike boiling or blanching, dehydrating at low temperatures retains the vast majority of vitamins and minerals in your produce. You get all the goodness — just without the water.
Save freezer space
Dehydrated produce takes up a fraction of the space of frozen food. A kilogram of fresh tomatoes reduces to a small jar of intensely flavoured dried tomatoes.
No additives or preservatives needed
Dehydration is a completely natural preservation method. Just your produce, dried naturally — nothing added.
What Can You Preserve?
The Ezidri FD1000 handles virtually everything you grow:
- Courgettes and marrows — slice into crisps or dry for soups and stews
- Tomatoes — dried tomatoes in oil, tomato powder, sun-dried style slices
- Herbs — basil, rosemary, thyme, mint, oregano dried at low temperature to retain full flavour
- Onions — dried and powdered for year-round use in cooking
- Beans and peas — blanch first then dehydrate for long term storage
- Carrots — dry for soups, stews and snacking
- Apples and pears — slices, crisps or puree roll-ups
- Soft fruit — strawberries, raspberries, blackberries dried for muesli and baking
- Chillies — dry whole or sliced for year-round heat in the kitchen
- Mushrooms — foraged or cultivated, dried mushrooms are intensely flavoured
How It Works
1. Wash and prepare your produce — slice to around 5mm thickness
2. Blanch vegetables briefly if required — beans, peas, carrots benefit from 2-5 minutes blanching
3. Arrange on Ezidri trays in a single layer
4. Set temperature — vegetables at 55°C, herbs at 30°C - 40°C, fruit at 55°C
5. Set timer — most vegetables take 6 to 10 hours, herbs 4 to 8 hours
6. Cool completely then store in airtight jars or containers
With capacity for up to 30 trays, the Ezidri FD1000 can handle even the most abundant harvest in a single run.
Why the Ezidri FD1000?
The FD1000's unique heated airflow pattern means every tray dries at exactly the same temperature — from tray one to tray thirty. No rotating, no checking, no guesswork. Just load it up, set it and let it work through the night while you sleep.
- Temperature range 30°C - 70°C with precise digital control
- Timer up to 48 hours
- Expandable from 5 up to 30 trays
- 1000W for fast, efficient drying
- BPA free food-safe trays
- 40+ years of trusted manufacturing
Ready to Make the Most of Your Harvest?
Browse our allotment recipes below for step-by-step guides to preserving everything you grow — and never let a single homegrown vegetable go to waste again.