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Ok folks sorry for the delay but just had a burst of lambing and things have been hectic here. MEDLAR Wine 6lb Medlars (yes I'm still using 'old money') 3lb sugar Water to make up to a gallon 1/2 tsp Tannin 1 tblsp Pectozyme Yeast - as directed on pkt Chop Medlar fruit when 'squishy' and place in fe...

Hi all I haven't been on for a while. We tend to hibernate over winter as there was just too much snow to get out. Thanks to Stonehead for his help a long while back. We managed successfully to slaughter two pigs and two lambs!! I am thinking about growing peanuts.....well why not! All I know is tha...

Hi just found this thread ( I was looking for peanuts!!??!!), know I'm a bit late!!

Howeber, we have a Medlar tree or Mushmueller as it is called here. We made it into wine and it is fabulous I will copy down the recipe and post next time I come to the Intwernet cafe if anyone is interested.

Hi Stonehead,

Not sure what our girls are but they are long pale ones!! The meat is certainly lovely. It is dark meat with a good flavour. I soaked the salted bit and used it with some shoulder and some belly and made some superb pork pies. Very chuffed! So all is not lost.

It was from the back and should have been (sob, sob) back bacon!! It will all have to go into Boston bean casseroles I am afraid.

can i just ask a very naive question? Why do they HAVE to perch?? Some of ours like to perch some like to sit on the floor. Do I have to stop them?

Sorry to hear about your floods, would love to have some of your water tho'. We have had about 5 hours of water in the past 7 weeks so I am fed up with a) going 1/2 mile to the spring and filling up 10lt bottles for drinking, washing , cooking etc anf b) pumping up water from the well to water the v...

I think the problem with your salty bacon is the modern palette. The sh*te that is mass produces here (not sure about with you!) is tasteless pap, with ADDED flavourings, mostly beef extract..... Salt in today's diet is not PC, so if it's too salty, just soak it in water for a while. Otherwise, tuc...

Hi According to Hugh eat-it-all the saltpetre is optional as it is put in to preserve the colour of food and to be honest I don't care what colour it is!! Thank you Paddy forthe recipe I will try it next time I couldn't smoke it as the temp is late 30s low 40s here at the moment and we would probabl...

Hi all, well the pig killing went well (thanks stonehead for your help) and we have a freezer full of pork now. One problem.....I made what I thought was bacon....... Well I got the right bit of the pig rubbed in a mixture of salt and sugar to cure it and kept it for about 6 days redoing the cure ev...

Hi there sorry for the delay I only get to the internet cafe once a week. The panal is on top of the energisor which has a 12v battery. When fully charged it can run for 5 days. It doesn't have a convertor. We want to pump from 7mts and want to water well an area 7mts x 70mts. I haven't bought a pum...

I have a solar panel which was intended for use withan electric fence but no longer needed for that purpose, I now want to hook it up and use it for powering a pump for the well, does anyone know what I have to do to achieve this aim? The one person I know that could help has selfishly left the coun...

Thanks for that one and all. My son touched the conector (that goes to the fence) on the energiser by accident and received a v v powerful shock. So being a loving mum and all in the interest of experimentation I got him to touch the fence wire to compare shocks!! Yes I know, just be pleased Im not ...

HELP our bl**dy electric fence is driving me to drink. We put it up and Gladys the larger of the ladies just ran through it. Right, so we put in corner posts and strained the wire around them making sure that plastic rods kept the wires off the wood. (Everything is set up properly I think with insul...

Hi all Can anyone help in answering a couple of questions please? 1) How much bacon (approx!) can one expect from a 100kg pig?? 2) How can you weigh a pig????? Maybe a stupid question but I have a weighing thingy that you hang up but it only goes up to 60kg can I actually use two of these and attach...