Hey loving the idea of using the servo for showers!!! Good on you Ilona.

Ummm.. I would say a 9: I do grow my own veg..though not as much as I would like ..my toddler has slowed down production on that but getting there. We have 8 chickens so plenty of eggs for us and I sell the surplus to colleagues at work which pays for their feed +. Do make Jams (got plum, apricot an...

You're welcome ..Got me thinking so I had a look on the net and found this website which has got recipes for all sorts of wines. Haven't tried them yet but I think I'm going to have to work my way down the list!! The thing I like about this was she is very into using free ingredients...works for me....

Couple of recipes for Parsnip wine.... makes a sweet white wine. My Dad used to make Parsnip wine all the time when I was youger and reckoned it was the most reliable of wines to make. Don't know about that but it's nice Recipe 1 4lb. parsnips. 3lb. granulated sugar. 1. gallon of cold water. 1. lemo...

There's a recipe on the net for lemon curd to freeze that will keep for up to a year. I typed in "freezer lemon curd " I haven't checked it against the recipe that I have used to see if there is anything different about it.

We have them growing in our compost bin from pumpkins we have eaten..don't know if they will come to anything though.
Manda

My girls eat anything that happens to walk in their path!! We have fruit trees and they just eat whatever's fallen until they are fed up with it..don't monitor them they kinda do that themselves. The all come to he call which if they are a bit away I think is hilarious because they come swooping dow...

I like them with fried onions and a cheese sauce, bit of cheese on top and then put into the oven..yum ~ haevnt had that for a while...think we'll have that tomorrow.
Manda

Hi Wendy
Had a look on the net - this has got loads of recipes to do with quince. Goodness knows what they are like but happy experimenting...

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=quince
Manda

Hi Sue
My girls have layers pellets but they have them both dry in a feeder and some soaked in luke warm or cold water (depending on the weather) in a roasting dish (bit more room to avoid squabbles) then they go like mash and I've not had to grind them up.
Manda

My Chilli plants...my strawberries...the bloody tomatoes (god there were fights over the bowl whilst I was trying to collect the thinks heads stuffed in there trying to fish them out!)...

www.gardenaction.co.uk/fruit_veg_diary/veg_planner.asp www.50connect.co.uk/50c/gardenvegetablelibrary.asp Hi Kat I had a look on the net (coz I'm upside down and my planting guides are for that) but the top address gives you a pretty good look through the year and the next one just gives you loads o...

www.squarefootgardening.com/ If you're waiting for the book then you can always go to his website and look at that ...it's all there and you can download it so you have a copy you can can get grubby Haven't tried it myself ..do the lasagne gardening..only thing I would say is that the peat moss bit ...

It's definitely food for thought (no pun intended), perhaps the powers that be should take a look at the food producers, in addition to the manufacturing industries, when they are examining who is contributing to global warming eh? I think that from our family's point of view, although we remain mea...

We have cows...we did have 4 and now there are 3. No 4 now resides in the freezer Anyway I thought that I would feel awful about it as I had never done anything like this in the UK (to be honest I never thought that we would ever be living the life we lead).... I didn't. We had ours homekilled (it i...