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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… [442 views in Jul]
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When to Harvest Your Vegetables: Picking each crop at its peak of freshness and flavour is key to a successful harvest. In this article, we'll discuss the best time to harvest each… [188 views in Jul]
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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… [146 views in Jul]
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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… [128 views in Jul]
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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… [74 views in Jul]
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Growing Squash and Pumpkins: The sweet, spicy aroma of pumpkin pie cooking in the oven is a welcome sign of autumn. Growing your own squash and pumpkins is a special treat - especially… [70 views in Jul]
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Robyn
Re: Growing Squash and Pumpkins
@Freemind - They will happily grow on a teepee type arrangement. They are fine growing up high, you can stablise them if you thing…
17 July 2018 -
Freemind
Re: Growing Squash and Pumpkins
Was given some onion squash seeds. Have four successful plants 3 of which have squash growing on them. I put up sticks because they…
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Re: Growing and Using Artichokes
Artichokes are best planted as began seedlings in trenches eight inches profound, fixed with one inch of fertilizer or decayed…
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Rabby
Re: Pickling Onions and Shallots
I've been doing my own pickled onions for myself and my family for 30 years and I di them the same every year . I have about 10 of…
16 February 2017 -
MrsF
Re: Pickling Onions and Shallots
I've done my 1st jars of onions today using 1/2 a 4kg pack of Parrish's onions. I'm using Sarsons pickling vinegar with…
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Silverfox
Re: Pickling Onions and Shallots
When making a brine for pickles you need a tablespoon of salt for every pint of water, leave pickles in for no more than 24hrs. 3…
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Pickles
Re: Pickling Onions and Shallots
I live in Spain and am having great difficulty in buying pickleing onions, anyone got any idea where I can buy them as I need…
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Ian
Re: Pickling Onions and Shallots
Hi, I am in the process of doing some pickle onions. Yesterday I made a brine solution with approx 5 ltrs water and went a bit…
5 October 2016 -
Minety15
Re: Pickling Onions and Shallots
Hi, I've been given a jar of pickled shallots and they are soft, does anyone know if it's possible to crisp them up again…
30 September 2016
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