Recent content by Keith1940

No expenses spared with this fancy hand made label! I made this last August, beer bottles are perfect, especially if I want to make it a sparkling melomel. To the right of the bottle is my Menard's fake rock which hides the wires to the well pump.

I have a spot where I grew Waltham butternut squash last season, banana peppers and one bell pepper this season. They get sun from 11:30-15:00, the butternuts went nuts, at least 60 of them. The bananas are doing fine, the Bell is finally producing. Beds with a few more hours of sun are doing...

How do you move this when it's full? It has to weigh close to 90 pounds. A couple of weeks ago I lifted a 70 pound carboy from a chair to a four foot high table. It was getting a little bit heavy from where it rested at 3'4" to the top of the table. An electric pump syphon system would come in...

Trees are woody weeds once you don't want them or when they die. I only remove nuisance trees and some dead trees. Two red oaks 100' from the house died, they got to go. A large volunteer cherry and a previous owner planted pear tree were blocking too much sun from my garden beds. They have...

I composted a few poinsettia plants into the compost pile like I always do. This year was the first year I ever got a volunteer poinsettia. The leaves are not solid red like the leaves are on the poinsettias that well all know. The red leaves are bracts not flowers. The flowers are those tiny...

Now they have a chemical in cigarettes so they don't burn too long unless hit on. Someone told me if you nuke cigarettes in your microwave that would neutralize that chemical.

I usually make 6-7 gallons of wine per batch. I will rack that into a 5 gallon carboy, a one gallon glass juice bottle, and whatever is left will go into a 1.5 liter bottle. I like to have enough extra wine so when I rack it I don't have to dilute it with water. In your case I would buy a 5...

RenaissanceWench, what a fantastic nic! Makes me want to eat a turkey leg! LOL Welcome. I just found this forum a few days ago, lots of interesting things here.

I did not use vinegar in my wine, that is what I have done in canning to give things some extra heat. I thought that simmering with the wine would be a good way to give it some more heat. Wednesday I cut the long peppers into slices than cut those in half. I cut the bells in half, sliced them...

Looks like someone might be making some watermelon wine!

OK Arne I have come up with a plan, what do you think? I just picked 12 oz of bell peppers, 8 oz of sweet banana peppers, that have a little bit of heat to them, 8 oz of black Hungarians, and 10 oz of Jalapeno's. I have 3 gallons of watermelon wine in the basement that has been in the secondary...

One thing I read was to keep birds and squirrels from eating veggies in the garden was to put out a bowl of water for them. Maybe you could put out some bowls of water around your trees for the squirrels.

Welcome to the club. What are country wines? I have only made wines/melomels with fruits, no grapes. Did you get to see the solar eclipse last week?

This past March I attended the Nashville Lawn and Garden show at the State Fairgrounds. I was walking around and I saw a video similar to what Blue posted with the Rodenator. This fellow was called Pappy's Mole Service. He had the wand that used propane, he filled the mole paths with propane and...

That is a nice harvest of Jalapeno's. Do you use any for canning? I have used some of mine in cooking, squash relish, and salsa. I have also used Jalapeno's to make pepper jelly. Sometimes I let a lot of them turn red so the jelly will have a different color.