Welcome to the October Newsletter
If you are anything like us here at The Green Store, you will have spent the summer sowing, tending and watering your raised beds and veg plots & will no doubt have a window sill full of un-ripened tomatoes and enough carrots to keep Bugs Bunny happy!
So we were pleased to find some recipes that would make use of some of our produce.
We love carrot and coriander soup and found the following (really easy) fab recipe;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/carrotandcorianderso_1919.shtml
And if you have many green tomatoes you could treat your nan or neighbours to some home made chutney;
http://www.cookitsimply.com/recipe-0010-0329n0.html
Or if you have a true abundance then the following link has some great tomato recipes including an easy tomato ketchup!
http://www.britishlarder.co.uk/what-to-do-with-a-glut-of-tomatoes
But if you have grown some beetroot and wish you knew why you had, and need some inspiration beyond pickling, then the following article may be of interest?
http://www.lovebeetroot.co.uk/
A whole website for beetroot lovers!
No matter what you have left in your glut pile, we hope you are as proud of yourself as we are, as eating in season, organic, homegrown produce sure does taste so much better!
We are now off to make peppermint tea, fresh from our window box full of mint!
Some other sites we thought that might be of interest include;
http://www.eattheseasons.co.uk
http://www.selfsufficientish.com
Did you know......
Drinking beetroot juice, or consuming other nitrate-rich vegetables, might be a simple way to maintain a healthy cardiovascular system
Professor Amrita Ahluwalia Barts and The London School of Medicine
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7228420.stm
Top Tip
Electric kettles consume half the energy needed to boil water on the stove, so when you put on a pan for pasta or veg – boil the water in the kettle first & place a small (clean) seashell in your kettle to avoid limescale build up!
Newsletter Reader Competition.
This month instead of a readers offer we are having a competition to win a Southern Comfort Bottle Clock. 
To enter the competition simply send an email to competition@thegreenstoreonline.co.uk with the subject line Southern Comfort and answer the following question:-
Where, in the UK, are our range of Recycled Bottle Clocks made?
Note: - This competition is only open to The Green Store newsletter subscribers in the UK. Any responses from entrants not on our mailing list will be excluded. Only one entry per person. All entries will be entered into a draw which will be drawn after the closing date.
Competition closes on Friday 30th October, after which the winner will be contact by email.
We hope you all have a good month.
Take Care
Best Wishes
The Green Store Team.