On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 14:29:59 -0700 (PDT), mike <
dmik...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 1:57:14 PM UTC+1,
max.it wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Aug 2022 10:16:11 +0100, steve hague
>> <
steveh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >On 31/07/2022 21:10,
max.it wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Any home brewers about here?
>> >>
>> >>
max.it
>> >>
>> >No. We're all under the table.
>> >Steve Hague
>> I make10 litres of rhubarb saison every year. It's a light fizzy
>> cordial type of drink, quite strong, finishes at about 8%.
>> The rhubarb comes from my garden.
>> I was showing one of my grandchildren the song thrush collecting
>> snails from the rhubarb and smashing them open to eat. Then the
>> blackbird feeding it's fledglings and it dawned on me she was feeding
>> them my bloody gooseberries.
>>
max.it
>
>we make raspberry and apple cordial, we like it medium sweet but
>its non alcoholic, although we often drink it with vodka.
3k of rhubarb, 4k of sugar and 5 gallons of water. One spoonful of
yeast, airlock the container and off you go. 1 week later syphon off
from the rhubarb and let it go another week with an airlock. Another
week after that you can bottle it, a wee half tea spoon of sugar in
the bottle gives it a nice wee fizz and you can drink it the following
week.
>but its same with the raspberries, the birds constantly try and get them
>even though cos of the lack of rain this year theyre quite small, so i
>put up nets. Other thing is they tell you to grow wild flowers and
>scented stuff like lavender, to help the insects, what they dont warn
>you is that this leads to beesnests and the like all over your property.
I have loads of raspberries and this year for the first time ever I've
noticed the birds at them. It's early for my raspberries right now but
there are a couple of random early varieties in there too.
Once I put raspberries into the rhubarb beer, but it was way too
sweet.
>my neighbour just has decking, sun loungers and a few plant pots and
>has no problems with insects at all. he sends em all to my place he tells
>me!
>
>mike
Next door to me have a concrete garden with loads of potted flowers
and displays and stuff. There is a right of way between our basement
door and our garden and anyone without a garden gate or fence has
hedgehogs.They're good for slug management too but they'll eat your
berries and crap all over your grass.