Cinnamon, I think I must get the ph meter - just stick it into the tomato prior to canning, get a guess of what its ph is, and then guess where to...
Well, no topical photo - so I just popped back for a minute as the dogs eat and thought a picture should be sent - and so here is one particularly...
Ha, I got banned from Urban 75, the anarchist site, for discussing the legality of sex selection abortion which was in all the news as Parliament...
Excellent stuff here - cinnamon the bit about botulism and low acid is well said. Most tomatoes are sweet and not acidic enough for many forms of...
OK, the eggs.............So I water floated the lot and 6 had movement, but weak compared to the youtube examples. A little egg had opened its...
Chick update - because something I found interesting. The chicks should have hatched last night/today - but it had gone to 104f (99.9f is right)...
I live in a hot climate and we get a canna worm which cuts and then rolls back a strip of leaf to make a home. They just do cannas and make a mess...
What happened to Sheal and Fern?I have 15 of the very small banti/Orphington cross eggs on the stove right now (I am in for a large iced tea)....
Cinnamon, what will you do with your massive crop? I see you saved much of those seeds so must have tomatoes figured out - and this is important...
Zigs, someone said they had a hard time posting from Flickr - I do all my pictures from there and it is easy but takes two steps.I forgot about...
And just a bit ago had Pavlova again - the base freezes perfectly, just leave on the paper, stack them into a bag and toss in the freezer - take...
YES! I am doing it now, but with iced tea in hand.Pound cake is traditionally 1 pound each of: flour, sugar, butter, eggs. Yours is a bit lean,...
'Three post ment' is the saying elsewhere - that if you post three consecutive posts you are ranting; an over excited brain, and on a bit of a...
I wait till the plant dies back, but I just want potatoes, not tender new potatoes. I also am in a different climate so disregard and go with...
Here removing the side shoots is optional on cordons. Same yield but smaller tomatoes if shoots left on - bigger tomatoes but less if they are...
MrsK, I see you are new here too, I guess this is kind of my Coventry; bleming into the void as they called it on NottheTalk, before they banned...
So I got the syrup developing over low heat and turned it off to let osmosis do its thing and get the berry lobes popping and juices flowing. Then...
It is getting dusk out, I have returned from walking about - first picking the berries and then locking up the chickens.I left the picking too...
I am thinking of making blackberry syrup to go over more common fruit like apples and onto the Pavlova I am now into. (I have my iced tea beside...
best post Ramshackle, I am off to do it - now! ----------------------------->>>>>>>>(looks at moth in a worried Checkhovian way)
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