I put a couple in pickeled eggs . I like them with chili and barbecue .
This Year's Harvest
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Brent S
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It seems like you bottled that a little quick. I usually let it sit for 5 months to a year before bottling. that just gives time for all the solids to settle to the bottom so what’s left is completely clear. It’s no big deal but after a bottle sits for a while the sediment will settle to the bottom of it. It just looks unattractive but is safe to drink anyways. Congrats on your first batch. It’s actually easier than most think to make good wines, and rewarding.
There were no solids or sentiments that I could see, so I went ahead and bottled. I got a buzz from the last bit in the jug...pretty clear! That was my sample. It is all an experiment for me now.
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Brent S
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Even though it looks clear there’s still stuff in there. That’s why all the wineries let it sit for a year before bottling. Like I said though, it won’t hurt you or change the taste. It’s probably actually good for you, but most wine snobs like to swirl a glass and look for clarity and ‘legs’, which is the alcohol content on the sides of the glass.
Thanks for the advice, I will wait longer next time...but no snob will ever drink this...I hope!
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Arcticdude
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I picked a couple 5 gallon buckets of left over tomatoes and fed them to the pigs and chickens. The wife even managed to get a couple of our wild range cows to eat some tomatoes out of her hand. She'll make a pet out of anything.
Got another 5 gallon bucket of hot peppers that I'll spread out to dry. I grew a mix of; jalapeno, Thai, cayanne, habanero, tobasco and a few others.
Got another 5 gallon bucket of hot peppers that I'll spread out to dry. I grew a mix of; jalapeno, Thai, cayanne, habanero, tobasco and a few others.
Brent S
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I picked more grapes last evening. I should get about three more gallons today and that’s the last of the muscadines. I will do some cuttings to replace a few vines with my better ones, then mid winter will prune the vines. Right now the freezer is filled with them, both white and red. Hopefully I will have it all turned into wine through winter.
In the garden, I'm currently picking my late crop of bush french green beans. My wife prefers the long skinny beans. We blanched them & they are in the freezers... which are about full now. Gotta find a pole version of those cause it kills my old back to get down & pick those things. Still picking lots of tomatoes, peppers & okra. Been a great year for peppers for some reason. My orange, red & yellow did amazingly well. My late 2nd plot of sweet corn is tasseling now and looking great. It is a small plot so I've been able to keep it well watered & fertilized to speed up the growth. My collards are looking great, even thru this last heat spell and I need to cut leaves in the next few days. My Lacinato kale is growing fine but the heat is damaging the older leaves. I expect it will recover just fine as it starts to cool down.
I put in a dozen muscanines this past spring & they have done well. They have all made it up to the wire & have grown down the wire to their designated length. This is my first try at growing them. As opposed to the standard 20' spacing, I went with 12' so that I could get more varieties in that patch. Also seemed logical to do so, in a small plot like that, as from what I can tell, the majority of the grapes grow closest to the trunk. I've got a few bushels of apples in the refrigerators and this week the wife & I will start peeling & putting up apple butter. Picking lots of Enterprise & Virginia Winesap now. Arkansas Black will be ready in a few weeks. Ashmead's Kernel was not plentiful this year but oh my Lord... soooo good!
I put in a dozen muscanines this past spring & they have done well. They have all made it up to the wire & have grown down the wire to their designated length. This is my first try at growing them. As opposed to the standard 20' spacing, I went with 12' so that I could get more varieties in that patch. Also seemed logical to do so, in a small plot like that, as from what I can tell, the majority of the grapes grow closest to the trunk. I've got a few bushels of apples in the refrigerators and this week the wife & I will start peeling & putting up apple butter. Picking lots of Enterprise & Virginia Winesap now. Arkansas Black will be ready in a few weeks. Ashmead's Kernel was not plentiful this year but oh my Lord... soooo good!
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The garden did good on some things not so much on others, all our verities of berries done good especially the blue berries, tomatoes done fairly good better than what I was expecting, all of our verity of beans done better than expected but was disappointed in our peppers, we got less than half of what we were expecting. We only harvested half of our corn.
Aginst My Wife's onjections I brought one of My ghost pepper plants in for the winter . Im hoping it will live inside until Spring and I will put it out next year
. Its 3 ft tall now .
My green beans in the house experiment is not doing very well. Oh well.
Two of the pots are doing okay, but two have died.
I could have put out the grow lights, but it wasn't worth it.
Two of the pots are doing okay, but two have died.
I could have put out the grow lights, but it wasn't worth it.
Racking the wine just makes it prettier and more enjoyable. Looks nice in a goblet. You know like a clean car drives nicer.LOL.
I was out walking and noticed that one of my gardens had about 15 tomato plants. The plants are still green, but never produced any fruit. Not one single tomato out of 15 plants. 5 feet away are the okra plants and they had a great year. Produced more than we could eat.
Just shows that each plant requires specific nutrients.
I'll move the tomatoes next year.
Just shows that each plant requires specific nutrients.
I'll move the tomatoes next year.
Brent S
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You should move all your plants each year. It helps with resistance to bugs and such. It’s not to say you can’t plant in the same spot, but it’s best not to. I still have loads of green tomatoes on the vines but they all took a hit by the cold snap this past weekend so I think they are done for now.
This is a new garden spot. First time planting tomatoes on it. Maybe had too much chicken poop on it. Too much Nitrogen will make lots of foliage and not much fruit.
My experience is tomatoes are heavy feeders and actually do best with lots of nitrogen. But yes, other plants will not set fruit if fed too well. But I guess even tomatoes can be overfed.
I have a technique when putting plants in the garden. Even though my beds are mature, well cared for and have lovely soil, I find I have less issues if I still use potting soil with a bit of fertilizer built in... such as Miracle- Gro. So I'll dig a nice big hole, twice the size of what is needed for the plant, fill with the potting soil and then set the plant. Seems like it would be unnecessary when you have great soil but it works best for me.
I make a hole and use it as a bowl. I fill it with potting soil, fertilizer, banana peel, crushed egg shells, Epsom salt and sand.
Our original soil was mostly clay. I've been adding to it for 20 years.
Our original soil was mostly clay. I've been adding to it for 20 years.
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