Saturday, May 30, 2009

Bill's vineyard and Girls doing their thing

Over the past few years, Bill has made several batches of homemade raspberry wine and some hard apple cider. Some good, some not so good. This spring he got the bug to try plain wine. So what do you need for wine? Grapes. Bill planted 13 grape vines this spring (the grower sent an extra one) on the hill in our back yard. One night a deer came along and pulled one out of the ground, probably thinking that he found a tasty treat. Bill replanted it. Then to prevent the deer from getting the rest of them, he put 3 foot cages, fence posts (you know the green metal ones used on farms) and wire around them to keep the deer out. He did lose the one that the deer pulled out. Our lawn has never looked so great in that corner of the backyard (it's the only part that gets watered daily--maybe its time for in-ground sprinklers). So how many grapes do you need to make a bottle of wine?

May need to click on the pictures below to see the details.

This is the vineyard


There are grapes already on


Salsa/Taco Salad Garden


Much more work without the snow


Yep, I think we need to change the oil in this baby

2 comments:

Pat / Silver Thimble Quilt Co. said...

What beautiful princesses.. Can't wait to see the crops come in.

Pat

Anonymous said...

I love watching the way kids think and play! Good luck with your harvest.