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Definitely lack of nutrient. Maple sap is poor in nutrients; you can often get away with no nutrients at all in a fruit wine (especially something like damson), and cider doesn't need it at all, but maple sap is kind of like a sugar wash with some flavour. Sugar washes at >1.08 or so OG are...

We used to live close to Wayland's Smithy which is about 6,000 years old.

For info: as far as I can tell we're at about the same latitude as Ottowa, but of course people grow grapes a lot further North than us. Even in Sweden. Our problem is that we're on the Western side of the uK, so we have a grey and fairly damp maritime climate. Never too cold (not much snow, a...

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Learn to love them? Or maybe eat them. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/01/let-dandelions-have-their-day-in-the-sun Round here they're a very useful early pollen source. If they really bug you then some sort of wipe/touch glyphosate would do it, but it's a laborious task...

yes, this place shows up when you search for vineyard advice... @BernardSmith Caerphilly has a great castle. A little further West from here, but not far. There are a lot of castles around here. It was a war zone in the middle ages, being border country. The first is our nearest, 5 or 6...

I have a couple of rows of Solaris. This is a vigorous vine and the soil fertility here is high (I always joked you could just put a stick in the ground and it would grow. When I pruned the apples & pears a couple of months ago I heeled 20 offcuts into the ground and 19 of them are in leaf) I...

'lo We're just inside Wales, about 6 miles as the crow flies from England, down at the bottom. I am just setting up a hobby vineyard (75 vines) and came here to get a few specific bits of advice. I've worked most of it out so far by either research or asking people but there's one or two...