Subj : Towing the Line [1]
To : Ruth Haffly
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Mon Jul 29 2024 14:33:25
Re: Towing the Line [1]
By: Ruth Haffly to Carol Shenkenberger on Sun Jul 28 2024 07:53 pm
> Hi Carol,
>
> CS> >
> > DD> A quick trip to the search engine tells me that fiss will not
> > RH> dowell DD> in my groqing zone without lots of special help. Which m
> > RH> 'splain DD> why they're not common around here.
> CS> >
> > RH> And we're in a great spot for them. Steve planted another tree to be
> > RH> last year so in a few years we'll have a super abundance of them.
> CS> >
> > DD> From my research they aren't huge trees like maples or oaks.
> CS> >
> > No, more like a bush. BTW, I was informed that the 2nd tree didn't make
> > it so we only have to one, but a very prolific one.
> CS> >
> CS> >
>
> CS> Figs love VB! Tons of them here. Fig farming has become 'a thing'.
> CS> I often trade apples for them.
>
> We don't have enough to farm (the newer tree didn't make it so just have
> the one) but the one tree we have is quite prolific. So far we've
> dehydrated several pounds of figs, with more to come. Maybe ought to
> take some to the farmer's market and do some bartering.
>
> CS> This years apple crop looks to be 1.5 bushels. I'm going to
> practice CS> making apple cider. I'm all setup now for it.
>
> Sounds good to me. My parents had several apple trees. One year when he
> was in a nearby college, my sister's son came over with several of his
> classmates to make cider. IIRC, they were able to make several gallons,
> splitting the yield so some went back to the college, some stayed with
> my parents.
>
>
Sounds like a plan for my apple cider! I won't try to ferment it, but next
year might, For now, I don't have containers to do that properly.
