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September's Most Popular Articles...

Pickling Onions and Shallots: Pickling is a great way to preserve your homegrown crop of baby onions or shallots. It’s easier than it sounds, so don’t hesitate – get stuck in using our… [2824 views in Sep]
Refrigeration Tips: Keeping Vegetables Fresh: If you're like most people, you unpack your groceries and plunk your vegetables into the refrigerator without a second thought. Did… [756 views in Sep]
Everything You Need To Know About Brassica Vegetables: Packed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, brassicas are the powerhouses of the vegetable kingdom. With its long… [592 views in Sep]
Making Sweetcorn Relish: It’s delicious on burgers, mash, sandwiches and sausages – and now that sweetcorn is in plentiful supply, it’s time to spend an afternoon making your stash of… [390 views in Sep]
Vegetable Crop Rotation: For healthy soil and high yields, it’s a good idea to practise crop rotation. With crop rotation, vegetables in the same botanical family are grown in a different… [286 views in Sep]
Types of Potato and How to Cook Them: Planning your potato patch for the next year – or wondering what to do with the glut of Cara that you’ve harvested? Here’s our guide to potato… [286 views in Sep]