Recent content by Larryh86GT

It took a couple days but did get going. Lavlin EC1118 yeast also.

NM

Tough to get started.

Me too. It is so much easier. :D

Another 6 weeks of winter this year? :D :b Larry

Friday night we returned home from an 11 night Southern Caribbean cruise to a foot of snow on top of our car that had to be cleared off before I got our luggage in it. Then when we arrived home I had to plow a bit through the snow in the driveway to get close to the garage. It sure was a shock...

Usually it is a glass of my wine but I buy a couple bottles of Swedish Hill Glogg every year around the holidays:

These are my new trellis systems I put in this fall. The old trellis posts were 4 x 4's with post stakes. They held up for 6 or 7 years on my 2 Marquis vines and maybe 4 years on my 3 Reliance vines but eventually the post stakes became too loose in the ground. The new end posts are cemented in...

Not much really. The turkey was only 48 cents a pound at our grocery store and the rest of the fixings aren't expensive. Not keeping a tally for it.

These are the last of the carrots I pulled out this morning before the ground freezes. Fresh carrots are awesome.

I made this display of Civil War items recently. I think it came out pretty nice. Larry

The grapes on my 3 backyard Marquis vines were ripe and the birds, bees and squirrels have started their annual grape feast again. These are table grapes and we just can't eat them faster than the pests so I picked them all today and will make wine. I have about 45 lbs of grapes and guess that...

This years garden is winding down with just 3 large potted cherry tomatoes, some swisschard, carrots, and a row of zinnias left. And a pumpkin vine my granddaughter planted. :b Larry

I was looking at my 5 backyard vines the other day and thought that growing grapes is not for the faint of heart. So many things go wrong, so many diseases and pests attack them. :b Larry

Your list of favorites is similar to mine: Blackberry, peach, pear, plum, raspberry. :b Larry