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Harvesting & Storing Your Produce

Assorted Freezer Labels

123 There's nothing to match the taste of freshly picked vegetables, straight from the vegetable patch or kitchen garden, but if you've got a glut of produce or want to wait until later in the year to sample your garden efforts, the next best thing is frozen produce - and our handy packs of Assorted Freezer Labels will avoid any labelling mistakes!

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Vegetable Storage Bags

123 Say goodbye to green potatoes, soft onions and sweaty garlic with our line-up of quality Vegetable Storage Bags, designed to keep your kitchen garden, vegetable patch and allotment produce in fine fettle until you get round to eating it!

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Stainless Steel Storage Pails

123 Give vulnerable eggs and potatoes the protection in the kitchen they deserve in no uncertain style with our Stainless Steel Storage Pails; two mirror-finish stainless steel buckets clearly marked with their contents!

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Berry Keeper

123 Keep blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, grapes and many other popular garden summer fruits almost as fresh as the day they were picked with the innovative Berry Keeper; a handy little plastic storage box which allows you to wash your fruit clean as well!

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Aubergine Wicker Harvesting Basket

123 This perfectly proportioned vintage wicker basket is a great shape for shopping and collecting up your home grown produce, will save unnecessary waste and look rather dapper. It's great too for storing eggs, fruit and vegetables and collecting cut flowers.

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Onion Nets (Pack of 5)

123 These Onion Nets are ideal for storing onions, shallots, garlic and other root vegetables and are ideal for hanging in a cool shed, larder or outbuilding - the places best suited for storing onions.

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Potato Harvesting Scoop

123 No more stabbed spuds with the Potato Harvesting Scoop, a modern day take on the traditional potato 'grate' which combines that centuries-old design with 21st Century technology giving you an efficient and reliable aid to harvesting container and field grown potato tubers.

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Herb and Flower Dryer

123 Dry herbs for cooking the natural way with our Herb and Flower Dryer and bring the country kitchen look and smell into your home; simply hang the attractive, hand forged, black powder coated steel dryer in a warm position in your kitchen (above a cooker is ideal), let the freshly picked herb leaves and sprigs dry naturally and enjoy the taste they bring to home-cooked dishes.

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Stainless Steel Wire Harvesting Trugs

123 It's not always trouble that comes in threes; this set of Stainless Steel Wire Harvesting Trugs certainly bucks that trend and the wire mesh design allows carefully nutured home grown fruit and vegetables to be collected, washed and drained - three more reasons to add them to your kitchen garden, vegetable plot or allotment harvesting set-up!

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Potato Storage Basket

123 Store your spuds in style with a little help from the wicker Potato Storage Basket; not only will the attractive 45cm high basket sit neatly in your kitchen, but it will help stop your potatoes from sprouting whilst allowing them to breathe, meaning your hard work growing your own produce won't be in vain.

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Vegetable Rack

123 Make the most of space in your kitchen with this attractively finished solid pine vegetable storage rack that stands 81cm high, 47cm deep and 57.5cm wide, with three sturdy slatted drawers for generous storage.

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Vegetable Sacks

123 Store your potatoes and other root crops the traditional way in these re-useable hessian Vegetable Sacks. Measuring 40cm x 70cm, the sacks have the essential ability to let stored crops breathe and air to circulate - a trait plastic sacks don't possess - helping to prevent disease outbreaks and keeping vegetables in tip-top condition for much longer.

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Traditional Apple Racks

123 The chances are (and let's hope so) that you won't be able to consume all of your apple crop at harvesting time, so storage becomes of premier importance - and these Traditional Apple Racks offer a top class solution. They are manufactured from beech, and this pale hardwood is easily worked to create the robust frame and removable shelves, all designed to allow maximum airflow around the stored fruits - essential to maintain quality and flavour.

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Stackable Apple Rack

123 This stackable space-saving Apple Rack is designed specifically for storing apples for the winter - made from pine wood it provides a cool, frost-free environment to keep your apples in ideal condition for several weeks.

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Wire Harvesting Trugs (Set of Three)

123 These Wire Harvesting Trugs with their useful, functional wire mesh baskets and comfortable wooden carry handles, are just the job for gathering garden vegetables, letting the air circulate thus keeping the contents at their freshest until ready for the kitchen.

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Easy Jams, Chutneys & Preserves

Bestselling guide from Val Harrison who runs our recipe pages.

Easy Jams Chutneys and Preserves

Cookware

Jam Recipes

Sweet Chilli Jam Recipe
Recipe for Sweet Chilli Jam - Makes 4 8oz Jars and keeps for 3 months in a cool, dark cupboard - refrigerate once opened.

Plum and Orange Jam Recipe
Recipe for Plum and Orange Jam.

Dried Apricot Jam Recipe
Recipe for Dried Apricot Jam - a lovely thing to do and so worthwhile, please have a go.

Pineapple & Courgette Jam Recipe
Pineapple & Courgette Jam Recipe

Plum Jam Recipe
Plum Jam Recipe

Carrot Jam Recipe
Recipe for Carrot Jam.

Rhubarb & Orange Jam Recipe
Recipe for Rhubarb and Orange Jam.

Raspberry Jam Recipe
Recipe for Raspberry Jam

Strawberry Jam Recipe
Recipe for Strawberry Jam

Plum Jam Recipe
Recipe for Plum Jam

Chutney Recipes

Microwave Green Tomato Chutney Recipe
A recipe for a Green Tomato Chutney done in the microwave.

Rhubarb and Date Chutney Recipe
Recipe for Rhubarb and Date Chutney.

Marrow & Courgette Chutney Recipe
Recipe for Marrow & Courgette Chutney - Goes lovely with cheese or cold meats.

Pear & Walnut Chutney Recipe
Recipe for Pear & Waltnut Chutney - Makes about 4 lb (1.8 kg) of Pear & Walnut Chutney. Leave for at least a month to allow to mature.

Sweet Beetroot Chutney Recipe
Recipe for Sweet Beetroot Chutney - can be eaten fresh or will keep for 3-4 months unopened.

Caramelised Onion Chutney Recipe
Recipe of Caramelised Onion Chutney - Makes about 3 lbs of chutney

Hot Carrot and Chilli Chutney Recipe
Recipe for Hot Carrot and Chilli Chutney - Makes about 4 lbs of chutney

Apple, Date and Chilli Chutney Recipe
Recipe for Apple, Date and Chilli Chutney - Makes about 5 lbs of chutney

Prune, Apple and Walnut Chutney Recipe
Recipe for Prune, Apple and Walnut Chutney

Tomato & Orange Chutney Recipe
Recipe for Tomatoes & Orange Chutney - This was a bit of an experiment as I had a bag of oranges to spare!

Pickles Recipes

Onion Pickle Recipe
Recipe for Onion Pickle - Makes 1 to 1ΒΌ lbs (500g).

Sweet Green Pickle Recipe
Recipe for Sweet Green Pickle - Makes about 5.5kg (12lb) and the veg can vary with the seasons.

Pickled Mushrooms Recipe
Recipe for Pickled Mushrooms.

Pickled Eggs Recipe
Recipe for Pickled Eggs.

Pickled Cucumber Recipe
Recipe for Pickled Cucumber. Best if left for 4 weeks before using

Pickled Beetroot Recipe
Recipe for Pickled Beetroot - if you use boiling spiced vinegar instead the storage life is longer and it retains the colour.

Pickled Onion Recipe
Recipe for Pickled Onions. For sweeter pickled onion, add a teaspoon of sugar to each jar of onions

Pickled Red Cabbage Recipe
Recipe for Pickled Red Cabbage. You can use the same recipe for Pickled White Cabbage.

Red Cabbage and Onion Pickle
Recipe for Red Cabbage and Onion Pickle.Goes particularly well with all type of sausages.

Beetroot and Horseradish Pickle
Recipe for Beetroot and Horseradish Pickle.