Help: I Live in a Craft Room!
Just loved your poem, only use crafters would understand. love from Australia a sister in craft.
Growing Sweet Potatoes?
Hi Steve I live in Queensland Australia which is a hot and dry place, not sure where you are but if its a hot place. I buy some small sweet potato from the shops and leave them in my shed to sprout, it takes a while but it will send out shoots. Bury them leaves...
How Do I Grow Ginger?
Hi Margaret, I live in Qld which probably will make it easier to grow. You can start a ginger plant by buying some ginger and leaving it in a warm spot inside, I leave mine in a bowl in the kitchen. it will after a while start to shoot. Cut this off with about...
Inexpensive Raised Beds?
Hi April, we were lucky enough to have old rainwater tanks on our farm that were rusted out on the bottom. My husband cuts off the top and bottom, then cut them in two, he puts poly pipe slit down the middle and attaches it to the rough edges with cable ties...
Why Are My Pickles Mushy?
Hi Nani, from what I have read in my many cookbooks is that if you use cheap vinegar, things will go wrong also if the things your pickling are a bit old. I put cucumbers straight into the jars after salting them down overnight, put water and sugar vinegar...
Budget (Anzac) Biscuits
Hi Jodi, the recipe above is an Australian recipe, that was made during the wars, and usually eaten on Anzac day to commemorate our fallen diggers. I think they may have even sent these biscuits to the diggers. Now we eat them at any time as they are very sweet...
Homemade Bread Has a Cake-like Texture?
Hi carole, are you using bread making flour? Normal flour doesnt give you good results. Do you add bread improver? this may help. Try and find a good bread making book, at the library. I have found some in charity stores, read read read and you will find the...
Feeding a Baby Lamb?
I think that its the temperature of the milk is the key test it on the inside of your wrist after you have warmed it up, if you cant feel it it is the right temperature. Try mixing powdered milk 1cup to 2 cups of water keep in the fridge till needed. Did you...
What Will Guinea Fowl Eat?
Hi kay we keep guinea fowl and we feed them the same things that we feed our chooks gueese and ducks. Crushed grain of any type, wheat crushed corn barley, when they are young we feed them Turkey crumble its called here in Australia, or growing pellets for...
Sources for Free Garden Seeds?
Any dried beans, peas from the supermarket a lot cheaper than seed companies, and you get a lot more. also when you buy pumpkins chillies anything with seed in it can be dried if spread on to paper towel tomatoes do well this way. Just squeeze out the seeds...
