I noticed that your kohlrabi is the red/purple variety. I have only grown the green. Is there a difference in taste? Wine, yum! I used to make wine, when I lived in Virgina I had a grape arbor. A neighbor of mine there used to make tomatoe liqueur. I wish I had gotten the recipe for that!

Good luck with the wine. My mother used to make cranberry wine for the holidays, it was great. She also made fig wine which wasn't very good for drinking but made delicious salad dressing. Remember, bad wine is usually very good vinegar.

Hi Miranda

Congratulations on your new hobby! It is going to be very interesting, let us know the results.

As a child my father would take me to the sugar cane mills, and we got to sample the juice and the liquor made there, strong stuff!

My father also made a delicious wine out of a very sour fruit (grosella) is like a berry. It was a sweet wine.

You are going to be busy with the garden and the winemaking, the crops are looking good.

And you will be happy with the nantes carrot, I always plant them in my garden. They are the all purpose, no fail carrot. Especially if you get them on sale in a tape form. Tons of the tape are even cheaper than the packet of seeds. When I see this value, I stock them up. And you don't even to have to thin them, thinning is not my favorite occupation. :o)

The poha berries are the same as the ground cherries, you can save them when ripe in their own husks till you have enough to make a jam. Or you can use them in salads savory or sweet. I eat them as a snack.

If you planted the casabanana in the spring, you would have fruits now, they take 100 days or more to grow and they take over the garden. That is a big no, no, for me and my small space.

Nice tangelo tree!

Silvia

Oh my gosh!!! How beautiful your garden is! It reminds me of my childhood and my mother's super-large garden and all the fruit and berries that would be canned or made into pies!

Now that I'm a total urbanite with my tiny, tiny container gardens, I do find myself nostalgic for those opportunities again.

I love viewing yours and Sylvia's gardens - very rewarding to see!

I cleaned up where the horned melons were. Silvia was right -wear gloves!

Oh, you make me wish I could hurry up my cape gooseberry plant. It's got a couple little buds, so I should have flowers pretty soon. (And thanks for the seeds Silvia! I'm looking forward to those even more than all my various tomtoes.)

Good luck with the wine making my dad used to by Orange wine from the road side packing house stands you used to see all over Florida I may have to try making some. I bought one of those blackberry plants they claim you can get 20 gallons of fruit from one plant everything I read said don't expect much the first year. I planted it on a 16 ft long trellis hoping I'd need it in a few years. Boy am I suprised I ended up with 6 strong canes over 30 ft long and they are still growin like weeds if we get enough chill hours for it to fruit I plan to make some sweet blackberry wine

OOOOOhhhh! I have some blackberry bushes, but they are not in the ground yet.. I racked the tangelo wine(put wine from big bucket into glass carboy) . I plan on juicing a whole bunch of calamondin and perhaps making some wine from it. Calamondin tastes so darn good in stuff. It has GOT to make good wine.