Garden
I had an amble around the garden this morning, and took a few photos of the flowers. OK, not just the flowers - vegetables as well!...
Pickles
Once the chutneyfest had been completed, we moved on to pickled onions. In the end, our garage smelled very slightly of vinegar - I wonder why that might be?
We did two batches of onions - one used bog-standard Sarsons pickling vinegar, the second used vinegar "enhanced" by us. My brother is the first to have tried some of these, and reported that while his sinuses were perfectly clear, he appeared to be missing the top of his head. Got them about right then!...
Tomatoes
We cleared down the last of our tomatoes at the weekend, to get them in before any frosts. A lot were still green, but realistically there's no chance that they will ripen now. We picked the small matter of 28lbs of the things!
This is what 28lbs of tomatoes looks like
SWMBO has made a tomato sauce out of the ripe ones, but the rest are going into chutney - and that many tomatoes need a lot of vinegar, apples, onions and sugar!
The brother has suggested that this beast, 1lb in weight, should be made into an individual batch of chutney - much like a single-cask whisky...
A 1lb tomato...