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[ShrekDawg]

What's a wine berry???

Here the fairs mostly start August, September, October but a few are in July I think. We only go to like one a year in the town next door in late August and it's just a little dinky thing lol but fun. But I've been wanting to go to other fairs, some real fairs. It's mostly just families and high schoolers lol

 

[ShrekDawg]

Just picked up some vinyl/linoleum to put down on the floor of the new coop

 

[sourland]

Pretty sure wineberries are a member of the raspberry family. They are a wild plant growing along woods edges and creek banks producing a very tart, dark reddish pink berry.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Pretty sure wineberries are a member of the raspberry family.  They are a wild plant growing along woods edges and creek banks producing a very tart, dark reddish pink berry. 

They sound delicious! Wow

 

[sourland]

This one Grange is the only place that I have seen them available for purchase.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I dont think we have one of those around here

 

[Bantambird]

The chokecherry bushes are starting to get overripe here, but you can pretty much only make syrup or jelly out of them. You could pick gallons and gallons, and still, I have so many around my house it would take days to pick them down. And the wild plums too, they should be ready next month.

 

[lcertuche]

When I was a kid we ate chokecherries (what we called wild cherries) all the time. I never imagined making jelly. How do you go about picking them. Maybe by the whole cluster?

I have found passion fruit on my place in several places. We excited to try it. Our grapes and muscadine are getting bigger. I hope to make a lot of jelly this summer. The Wildbunch can eat at least a quart of jelly every week or two. So far I have enough blackberries for 4 qts. of jelly.

I also have a few apples, peaches on the trees (and I do mean a few). I have some plum trees so that always makes good jelly. So far I'm not impressed with how the fruit looks.

 

[scottcaddy]

Good Sunday Morning Everybody

We got a nice rain and a bit of a summer thunder-boomer Sat. evening. It's nice to see green grass again outside of the garden.
And it was 77.5* again at 0630, nice enough to turn off the coop fans and clean them out.
Birds can plug up & burn out my fans in just a few days if I don't keep cleaning them.
Have a good day!
Scott

 

[sourland]

19 hours of non stop rain so far. We needed it, but would have been better spread out over the past month or so.