This garden bag & tool kit will be a useful, welcome gift or Christmas present for the vegetable gardener!
garden bag & tool kit
- heavy duty green tool bag
- weather resistant aluminium fork and trowel
- soft grip pair of bypass secateurs
- a handy ball of garden twine
- Price: £24.99
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This Green tomato chutney recipe is a great combination of apples, shallots and green tomatoes. It is cheap & easy to make if you grow your own apples, shallots and green tomatoes. It is also a way of using up the damaged, pecked or wind blown apples.
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Ingredients for 5 or 6 500kg jars
- 1.5kg green tomatoes
- 1 kg cooking apple
- 450g shallots
- 450g sultanas
- 450g demerara sugar
- juice of 2 lemons
- 50g root ginger
- 50g salt
- 25g mustard seeds
- 1.75litres wine vinegar
- 2 red chillies
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Method
- cut up the tomatoes
- peel, core and chop the apples
- peel and slice the shallots
- crush the ginger with a rolling pin
- halve the chillies
- place the ginger & chillies in a muslin bag, tie it securely & place in the preserving pan, & add all the other ingredients
- put the pan on a gentle heat & stir until the sugar has dissolved
- then simmer for about two hours without the lid on the pan
- when there is no more runny liquid, and the chutney is creamy and thick, remove the muslin bag
- pour into warm, sterilised jars, cover, seal and label
- keep for 2 months to allow the flavour to develop
This recipe for green tomato chutney will make a good Christmas gift.
Secateurs came top of the voters favourite garden tool in the Gardeners’ World Awards 2009..
Secateurs
- an essential tool for vegetable and soft fruit gardeners
- annual pruning of raspberry canes, gooseberry and currant bushes requires a decent pair of secateurs.
- 1 pair – now only £14.99
No wonder secateurs won the favourite tool award -in the Gardeners’ World Awards 2009!
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