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Beetroot Chutney recipe

2 lb Raw Beetroot, grated
1 lb Onions, chopped small
1 1/2 lbs Cooking Apples, peeled cored & chopped
1 lb Seedless Raisins
3/4 Pint of Malt Vinegar
1 lb Granulated Sugar
2 tbs Ground Ginger

Place all the ingredients in a large pan and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 1 - 2 hours or until thick and pulpy.
When cool spoon into warm prepared jars, cover and seal.

The recipe actually says 2 lbs of sugar but I found this was too sweet. The recipe also says 1L of Vinegar but I found this was too much and took far too long to reduce to become thick & pulpy.
ALSO - I am heavy with the Ground Ginger !

Enjoy !

Irish - The beetroot we had as a vegetable (par boiled then roasted in the oven) was Golden beetroot and not the ordinary red kind.

Hi Irish & Andrea - I will post the Beetroot chutney recipe tomorrow.

We don't think it's Dr Ruppel . . . . I'm 99.9% certain now it's Caranaby.
Thanks

A beautiful clematis . . . . http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clempiclist.cfm . . . . Oops, the web-site seems to be having problems, I can't seem to check out this link !

I have now had second thoughts about Carnaby . . . . . I think it is Carnaby rather than Nelly Moser.

Hi,

I actually e-mailed this site too

http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/

and I had an answer very quick. They said it was "Carnaby" . . . . . personally I don't think it's Carnaby!

This is Nelly Moser on their web-site
http://www.clematis.hull.ac.uk/new-clemdetail.cfm?dbkey=35

Yes the flowers are indeed large . . . . I did think it might be Nelly Moser!

Have a look here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flocculation

Brian

Duberley . . . . Oh, I never thought of that ! I wouldn't care but I had so many plants I gave some away ! !

Thanks folks! I'll have the food & slug pellets ready.

It did flower last year (It's second year in the ground) but not many flowers!

Thanks Andrew

Thanks for that reply . . . . certainly seems a better deal than I have seen !

majeekahead - Thankyou for your reply. We bought 4 orchid bulbs in Madeira. 1 Cattleya, 2 Codonopsis and the other bulb . . . . oh dear, I can't remember, but I think another Codonopsis ! They were all large bulbs. None of them were Phalaenopsis, as my wife has 4 of these already. As you say these are indeed growing in bark and are thriving, flowering their heads off for months at a time. However we have been told to treat them differently when they finish flowering. The nursery where we bought them said cut the stem down to just above the bottom joint. Somebody else said count down 6 joints then cut above that. The Orchid nursery in Madeira said not to cut the stem down at all ! We have cut the stem down to just above the lowest joint and the plants eventually throw out another flowering shoot from near the base. All good fun !

I'm certain you are correct in suggesting the name cattleya . . . . looking on the internet the flowers of this kind of plant are the same as we saw.

Many thanks Andrew for your reply. Regarding the orchid compost, the only orchid compost on sale at my local (large & well stocked) garden centre is not like the small pieces of wood bark you see orchids growing in but more like ordinary compost, but it is indeed very open. I'm sure it will be OK but I would rather have had the same growing medium as I described. Oh well, time will tell!
Once again thanks.

I guess nobody on "growsonYou" has heard of them either ! !

It may not exactly answer your question but I always start my onion sets off in trays then plant them in position when the roots have just started growing. By doing this the birds are not able to pull them out.

Oops . . . must have clicked twice!

I am thinking about next year!!

I am thinking about next year!!

I was wondering how to prune my outdoor grapevine too. I thought that a vine fruits on the previous years growth, if that's the case cutting it back to the trunk would be cutting the fruiting shoots off.

My vine does need pruning but I'm unsure what to do and when.

Help!

What does the Rose fertiliser do?

Thaanks for that Owdboggy, I wonder if fleece would help at that time of the year . . . . . that's one hell of a garden you have there, absolutely beautiful !

Yes it is growing in grass . . . . thankyou for your suggestion.
Brian