Why store apples in old chest of drawers, when these gorgeous racks can grace your harvest store?
Apple racks are an easy way to keep and store apples through the Autumn. The racks can also be used to store other fruit such as pears, plums etc.

The 5 drawer rack is a great size for those with a couple of apples trees and for those with a larger orchard, the 10 drawer rack gives lots of extra storage space.

The shelves on the apple racks are slatted to allow the air to circulate round the fruit.

The apple racks are best kept in well ventilated places such as a shed, garage or garden outhouse. If the conditions are cool and dark the fruit will store for much longer. Always store unspoilt fruit - remember, one bad apple…

The pine is FSC certified and the racks are delivered fully assembled.

Made of wicker and supplied with a useful whittled twig hook and rope for hanging from sturdy branches. The fruit picking basket is about 50cm long. The basket measurement includes the handle but not the rope and twig. Easily holds 40 medium apples.

With more and more people growing their own food, coping with gluts can often be a problem.
The Quattro Stagioni preserving kit contains 8 jars and lids needed to preserve and store food hermetically. Bormioli Jars are amongst the sturdiest jars made and they guarantee a completely modern vacuum seal (when hermetically sealed).

Home grown food was traditionally stored and preserved by this method - where the filled jars are filled, lids put on and then boiled to create an airtight vacuum. The filled jars can then be stored for several months.

The kit contains 4 x 0.25 litre preserving jars and 4 x 0.50 litre preserving jars with sterilised vacuum button lids, a wide-mouth preserving funnel for filling jars, a packet of Franchi basil seeds for Genovese pesto and a Aristo seasoning sachet from Milan. Also included is a 62 page book containing 50 recipes and is full of ideas and tips for each season of the year. Tips provide instructions on how to preserve food in the most efficient way - the book guides you from start to finish; from seed to jar.

The Quattro Stagionie preserving kit is a wonderful home essential that introduces an exciting Mediterranean feel to home cuisine.

A bar at the end of the tines protects the potatoes and the spacing and shape allows the potatoes to be sifted from the soil. Forged from stainless steel with a hardwood handle. When harvesting, loosen the soil around the base of the plants first, then lift them up from the ground. After harvesting potatoes, remember to leave them lying on the top of the soil for a few hours to dry off in the sun. Then brush off any excess soil and discard any that have been damaged. Remember that you don’t need to harvest all your potatoes at the same time.

They are also ideal for dead heading flowers - really useful stainless steel pocket tool for all gardeners; for those with huge herb beds to those with just a city window box.

A new take on the traditional tool used for harvesting potatoes without spearing your fork through them. A bar at the end of the tines protects the potatoes and allows the potatoes to be sifted from the soil. Forged from stainless steel with a hardwood handle.

When harvesting, loosen the soil around the base of the plants first, then lift them up from the ground. After harvesting potatoes, remember to leave them lying on the top of the soil for a few hours to dry off in the sun. Then brush off any excess soil and discard any that have been damaged. Then place in hessian sacks to extend their life.

Remember - you don’t need to harvest all your potatoes at the same time.

Handmade in the traditional fashion from strips of shaped wood and held in place by solid brass pins and screws.

We love mushrooms. Most of all we want to pick them wild and eat them. But obviously this is not without danger, all our home reference books until now have been vague or over complicated.

Here is a mushrooming guide with a totally new, positive approach.

Alex Schwab’s mushrooming rules are few but they are fixed rules. His key identification points leave no room for uncertainty. The book includes a field guide pull out card to take with you when you are out mushrooming or foraging for wild food. 180 full colour illustrations, 128 pages.

Mushrooming without fear- for the first time. YUM.

Also see our special Mushroom Knife.

Stainless steel blade with hardwood handle and belt clip. Blade area is 6cm long and has a serrated back edge for removing soil without risk of gouging.

If you want more information on collecting wild mushrooms, the best book we have found on the subject is Mushrooming without Fear, which gives clear and concise advice and includes a handy ‘in the field’ reference guide.

Traditional French styled metal egg basket in a brown finish, makes collecting easier and we might add, just a little more stylishly than the thingymajig you’ve been getting by with.

If the eggs require washing, then they can be kept in the basket can be rinsed under a tap. It is also an ideal egg storage container in the kitchen (even if you have cheated and been to the shops;).

The serrated teeth on the curved blade ensure a clean, easy cut every time. Made from the best material for cutting tools; high carbon steel. The hardwood handle fits comfortably in your hand. A protective sleeve helps keep the blade clean and safe when not in use. To use, hold the vegetable firmly in one hand and the harvesting knife in the other cut and through the stem. Home grown produce recipe book included with every purchase.

Handle length12cm, serrated edge 19cm

Bouquet Garni Bags Pack of 4 re-usable muslin bags with drawstring tops. After use rinse out and dry.