Q and A: tallow candles, canning tomato soup, and apple trees
Tallow candles
Have you ever made candles from rendered tallow? I made 3 container candles in small jars as an experiment. They looked beautiful, but they only burned for about 20 minutes until the wicks...
Q and A: fermenting cucumbers, pressure canning on a glass-top stove, and sauerkraut
Fermenting cucumbers
I want to ferment some cucumbers into pickles in my newly acquired crock. I don't have enough cukes all at the same time. May I make the brine etc. and add the cukes...
Q and A: fruit trees and watermelon dying and red cabbage for Amish coleslaw
Fruit trees and watermelon dying
We planted fruit trees this spring. We have had a very dry summer, nevertheless we have watered the trees three times a week. Now the leaves of all the fruit...
Q and A: butchering sheep, garlic sprouting too early, and not using a pressure...
Butchering a sheep
My family was recently given a sheep to butcher. It was a show lamb with a bum leg. In the course of researching (we have done chickens and cows but never sheep)...
Flip-flop weather
Just yesterday we were running around outside in our T-shirts. Will was finishing up work on his rebuilt corn planter and I was continuing the cleaning and picking up in the yard and house...