05/24/2017 TimberGardener

I can ignore a few holes in my lettuce leaves or the occasional blemish from a hungry bug, but I can’t STAND aphids.  It seems like they pick a fruit tree to colonize each year, with their ants helping them along.  Sometimes a thorough spraying with the hose will help,…

05/14/2017 TimberGardener

They say blueberry wine can be very similar to a Cabernet Sauvignon.  We had a freezer full of blueberries my father in law had given us in 2015.  They were in the deep freeze, so they didn’t have any sign of freezer burn, but a gallon of wine seemed like…

05/10/2017 TimberGardener

This blackberry wine will always hold a special place in the wine rack of my heart.  It’s the first wine we ever tried to make, after purchasing a book called Booze for Free by Andy Hamilton.  It’s a great book, I highly recommend it.  The recipes use tea instead of…