Pumpkins are getting big
I’m guessing 30-40 lb. and its only July.
Japanese beetles are attacking
Well, I leaned a valuable lesson today. I found beetles on my grapevines last week, so I picked up some beetle bags with attractant. It works great, just don’t put near your grapevines. I had bags on each end of the rows and the vines closest to bag were covered with jap beetle and the vines in the middle had few. Note to self: put bags far away from vines next year. Checkout the bag of beetles. I mean what do you do with these things? Also, after a few days of decaying beetles, those bags stink it up pretty good.
Watermelon Wine making time
Picked the watermelons and time to make the wine. First time at making watermelon wine but here goes.
Pressing the watermelon:
Making a yeast starter so I can get a faster fermentation going. Watermelon juice spoils quickly so gotta get it bubbling quickly.
Yeast added to watermelon must.
The fermentation is going well.
Almost at the end of primary and the color is changing to a lighter color.
After racking to carboy I see this wine will be white when done. Did not know that. Discovered most vintners put strawberries in the wine to get that pink color you expect.
Picked all my berries and peaches today
It was time to pick the first year of blueberries and peaches. This is the whole crop. Not bad for first year I guess.
First watermelon
It looked big and ready, but it wasn’t. Leaned that you need to look at the tendril closest to the melon. It needs to look dried up and like a pigs tail. Also the bottom on the melon should look a little yellow not white as mine did. It was okay, just not near as sweet as it should be.
Before and After
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