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With 12 hours notice, I found myself with an opportunity to transplant 15 mature "scuppernong vines" from a farm in North Carolina before the new homeowner cleared the land. With limited time to research, I did my best and cut the roots about 12" from center. There really wasn't a discernable...

This is a sweet 15 gallon crock. I love using my 6 gallon crocks as primaries, but this one has a hole at the top and bottom. it has this wooden spigot, which (not surprisingly) does not make a water tight seal with the enamel. i gave it a few good raps with a mallet, but any harder and i...

i am, by no means an expert. i've made about 50 gallons so far, never used a kit, but i scour this site for technique. i am in a situation where i have far more stone crocks than i will ever have carboys. i live on a small island in the pacific and even though i have just placed a sizable...

having some trouble polishing off a good design

i'm just going to go out on a limb and guess that i should have bought some distilled water while i was out buying pH test strips today. . . :>

i've got an abundance of this growing around here right now. i asked mr. google and he said that they are excellent for making jelly and wine, but i cant find a recipe anywhere. i think this would be a case where boiling would be wise for extracting the juice, though i'm iffy about letting the...

http://www.lejeuneyardsales.com/item.jsp?itemId=17044091 i'm at a crossroads. a simple decision could have disastrous results. . . for my sobriety.

on this, my first attempt, i've been following the instructions on youtube(address below) for making muscadine wine, with a few (rookie) deviations. i did not freeze the muscadines first, though in all my reading that didn't seem too necessary of a step. in the part of the instructions where...

howdy folks, this year i discovered the miracle of the pick-your-own farm. this is a concept that i had never before imagined, so i went a little overboard. one full chest freezer later, i got off the tomatoes, peppers, and the like and decided that i'd hit the grapes. i'm (obviously) new to...