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.

   xxcarol
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