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22,710.5 + 6 = 22,716.5

Add compost/mulch. The white is your bines. As they extend above the mulch they will turn green. Once they are up is when you'll decide which ones and how many to keep.

I was given some hops starts on another forum. I got them in planted, watered, and mulched them. Now it is time to sit back and wait. There were 4 rhizomes, 2 large with a dozen buds/sprouts each and 2 that looked like root cuttings the size of a magic marker. They all looked healthy and had...

Yes, the cool temps are dragging out the ferment. Once it is dry, .099 or lower, and clear you'll have a fine tasting apfelwein. Mine took 5.5 weeks at 68 degrees, so you might be looking at a 2 month ferment.

The only way that it should still be bubbling is if you have a cool spot for it to sit, low 60's or lower. The lower temps slow it down a lot, but leave it with more flavor when the ferment is done.

You probably won't get any fruit, or at least not much this year. But you can train them onto a trellis and probably get decent production next year. 3-5 years is for the root system to get established, these probably already have that, so they could produce good grapes next year. I don't...

Check Jack Keller's site. I seem to remember a chocolate something port this winter on his blog.

TO prevent the shipping and still get a food grade bucket try going to your local grocery store or bakery and asking for Icing buckets in the bakery department. I got 2 gallon, 4 gallon and 5 gallon buckets for free by doing this. You can split a recipe into half if needed to get it to fit...

I started my first batch 1-14-12 and bottled 3 weeks ago. As for my first tasting, it is a simi-tart dry wine. If you follow EDWort's recommendation to not judge till after 3 drinks you'll be drunk. I had 1 bottle, and I liked it. After 2 bottles, I was buzzed and liked it. After 3 bottles...

921 + 5 = 926

I sampled my apfelwein after the second fg reading at .998. It taste great and I can't wait till it is carbbed. I'll try to bottle tomorrow. This is after 4.5 weeks at 68 degrees. The only change I made fro EdWort's recipe is I used cane sugar instead of corn sugar.

I just tasted the cranberry apple wine, it taste yummy. It was only the gravity reading, but still a tasty 4 oz.

The parentage of my pears are a mix of table pears, asian pears, and canning pears. Here are a few hot weather/low chill varieties. All these are fireblight-resistant varieties. Asian pears bloom earlier and will need each other, or possibly Turnbull, to cross-pollinate. Zones 5-8 (and 6-9...

I think they are talking about malolactic fermentation.

I am growing seedlings for root stock, but no scions yet.

The beans are not perennials and if allowed to produce beans actually add negligible nitrogen into the soil. For them to work you would have to till them under as they begin to flower. I would go with a clover mix. You can frost seed clover now and it will germinate as soon as conditions...

The cherries will add some complexity, without much flavor. Being able to try something new is why some of us are doing this.

yeast... Good luck, it will probably be great.

more carbon will help to hold more nitrogen. So add chopped leaves, straw, junk mail, news paper, wood chips ect. But coffee is only about 2-5 percent nitrogen. so 100 pounds of grounds would add 2-5 pounds of nitrogen. Look up the nitrogen needs of your typical hops plant and go from there...

You could also check gardening, heirloom gardening and permaculture websites.