Thread: In the Garden 2017

Originally Posted by jmercer

Onions and a few carrots.

If you put those onions in a dry covered place with some ventilation for a week or so THEN top them they will keep quite awhile. The time allows the necks to shrink and seal the onion.

Around here they do it right in the fields but as I said it can be done well as described.

Looks like it had a mid life crises and could not figure out what direction to go. Har

Got ambitious tonight and harvested my tobacco. Most of it anyway. Many smaller leaves yet but the flowers are pretty so I will enjoy them for a while. As a rough guess I figure 17 leaves per plant. 22 plants.

I wonder how that figure compared to an average crop....

I just raise it for fun but now I will have to look that up!

Turns out I got 7 x 500ml bottles of cider from my apple haul. So 2 for my old man one to test carbonation in a couple of weeks and that leaves 4 [emoji23]

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Originally Posted by TheGeek

Turns out I got 7 x 500ml bottles of cider from my apple haul. So 2 for my old man one to test carbonation in a couple of weeks and that leaves 4 [emoji23]

Geek

Hmmm let me see if I got this right--Your apple haul produced 7 500ml of cider and you are giving 2 to your old man so that leaves you with 2 bottles

I would have thought you would have ended up with 3 bottles. Oh well I went to Dayton Public Schools what do I know

Let us know how the taste test comes out

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Hmmm let me see if I got this right--Your apple haul produced 7 500ml of cider and you are giving 2 to your old man so that leaves you with 2 bottles

I would have thought you would have ended up with 3 bottles. Oh well I went to Dayton Public Schools what do I know

Let us know how the taste test comes out

7 bottles...
2 for old man.
1 to test for carbonation
4 left over....

That makes 7 [emoji23]

Took a sample for tasting it's quite dry but theres a definite apple taste. I figure a few weeks in the bottle should mellow it a touch, but it was tasty as was.

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Originally Posted by TheGeek

7 bottles...
2 for old man.
1 to test for carbonation
4 left over....

That makes 7 [emoji23]

Took a sample for tasting it's quite dry but theres a definite apple taste. I figure a few weeks in the bottle should mellow it a touch, but it was tasty as was.

Geek

I see said the blind man to his deaf wife.

When I was kid there was a carbonated non alcoholic product called Apple Beer, it was a pretty good drink with a big apple taste. All of my kids love a sparkling cider and so do the grandkids they about put me in the poor house during our winter holidays.

I've tried buying the less expensive off brands but no go! This is the one they love!

Originally Posted by cudarunner

I see said the blind man to his deaf wife.

When I was kid there was a carbonated non alcoholic product called Apple Beer, it was a pretty good drink with a big apple taste. All of my kids love a sparkling cider and so do the grandkids they about put me in the poor house during our winter holidays.

I've tried buying the less expensive off brands but no go! This is the one they love!

That looks pricey [emoji23]

I like my cider with a bit of an ABV % hah.

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Originally Posted by TheGeek

That looks pricey [emoji23]

I like my cider with a bit of an ABV % hah.

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It runs $2.50 a bottle when it's on sale (at least it was last year) so I buy a case of 12 and 4-5 bottles on top of that and that's pretty much drank between Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years that's the only time I'll splurge and buy the stuff.

Popped open one of our 5 bottles tonight to test for carbonation.

That was some damn good cider.

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