Some of the benefits of eating grapes
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Comments (19)I too agree that most vinifera taste good, and even some of the hybrids, such as Foch, which is also my favorite wine grape for food. Franktank, in WI you have to use hybrids, no vinifera. Even last year, terrible summer and all, Frontenac made it to full ripening. I think the hybrids are interesting grapes, with more fruit than vinifera, but more difficult to make into nice wine. As a matter of fact for wine I prefer Frontenac, but only if mixed with some CA grapes for tannins. But the hybrids will generally shine in blends, which is what I do. Scott, if you get organized, a really nice bottle of homemade wine can be had for less than $3. My blends are typically 60% MI -40% CA. CA may be $1/lb for the grapes, and MI, $60/lb (at least locally). So the wine for one 720 ml bottle comes to about $2.30 a bottle. You have to buy from someone who will destem them for you, so you take home just the juice. You have to have friends who will do it with you. Alone, it is a drag. You have to keep track of your bottles so you can reuse them over and over. I use 22 oz. beer bottles with beer caps, which I got from the refund bins. And you have to find a press at a garage sale for $10, though I have seen a number on craigslist for $100 or so. Plus spent grapes make great compost, the one I usually give to the tomatoes. The easiest way to make good wine is to ignore the cultivar and go for the ripest, highest Brix grapes. In the old days, when California Grape in Detroit had the crates outside, it was easy enough: you'd just buy the grapes with the most flies and wasps on. With ripe grapes, it is easy to make good wine, far easier than to make good beer....See Moremulberries and grapes, figs that are good to eat.
Comments (3)Fred: Willis Orchard Co carries a nice assortment of grapes. The Earliest is Perlette which is the earliest commercial grape out off the Coachella Valley in CA. It is only fair quality. Next is Flame the red seedless most commonly found in stores. It can be a very nice grape. But my favorite seedless table grape by far is Summer Royal. It has large dark purple berries with terrific flavor. If you want a great eating grape this one is worth waiting for. It matures about the same time as Thompson seedless, probably late August in your area. In my greenhouse it matures in late July to early August. Check out the fig forum for that fruit. To get great fruit in early summer you need to go to the stone fruit. You can grow stone fruit, no matter how hot your area, if you are pretty much frost free in March. Artic Star nectarine would be a great place to start in stone fruit. It is low chill enough for almost any area of the SW and will mature in June. Go to Dave Wilson Nurseries website and check out the video on growing fruit in N. Las Vegas, Nv. They get enough chilling in winter to grow most fruit, you might not. But it does show how good fruit can do despite their stffling summer heat, both days and night way above what I'd think would be good for fruit. They also have more suggestions for good low chill varieties if you fall in that region. The Fruitnut...See MoreBest Eating Grapes
Comments (2)Braveheart I planted some paw paw trees the first of January. I planted them becasue they are the host of the Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly nor of the fruit. I know you have to plant at least two to have fruit. I ordered 4 trees and was sent two extra. I have been told that the texture of a paw paw is like a custard and tastes somewhat like a banana. If you plant them and find these huge worms on the leaves please don't kill them. They are the caterpiller of the Zebra Swallowtail. I have never grown kiwi but know it has been grown with some success in the Dothan area. Grapes are also grown all around me but I don't know the type. Good luck on your venture....See MoreThe benefit of eating figs
Comments (22)Japanese Group Converts Due to Quran Miracle According to al-Jazeera newspaper of Saudi Arabia, a Japanese research group who were investigating the chemical changes occurring within a special protein in human brain was astonished when it received the research findings of Dr. Ibrahim Khalifah, a Muslim physician who had investigated the issue in accordance with the Quran. All the group members converted as a consequence. While the group was working on mythalonids, a protein produced in human and animal brains, they found out there must be a relationship between the substance and olive and fig, two fruits to which Allah (swt) has taken an oath in the holy Quran, al-Jazeera reported. Mythalonids is an important substance for the human body which can reduce the blood cholesterol level and increase heart function ability and self-confidence. According to the report, the human brain begins to produce the substance between 51 and 53 years. The production then declines and finally stops at the age of 60 and therefore, the protein could not be achieved easily. Therefore, a Japanese group was assigned to focus on plants to achieve the substance, since the scientists believed the protein was effective in the prevention of old age symptoms. After a hard struggle, researchers found the substance they were looking for could just and only be found in two fruits: olive and fig. And one more thing that they realized was that the substance could only be achieved from the combination of these two. What they found out next was really and truly amazing. They realized that in order to get the protein, they had to make a mixture of 7 olives and 1 fig. They kept studying until they received (completely by an accident) a letter from Dr. Ibrahim Khalifah in which he had explained the findings of his investigations on olive and fig in the Quran. According to the findings of the Muslim Arabian physician, Quran has used the term Âanjeer (fig) only once whereas the term Âaz-zaytoon (olive) was mentioned seven times (6 times explicitly and once implicitly) in the holy Book. This is exactly what the Japanese group had found whereas the fact had been mentioned in the Quran 1400 years ago. "æóÃáÃøöÃäö æóÃáÃøóÃúÃõæäö¡ æóÃõæÃö ÃöÃäöÃäó¡ æóåóÃóà ÃáúÃóáóÃö ÃáúÃóãöÃäö¡ áóÃóÃú ÃóáóÃúäóà ÃáúÃöäÃóÃäó Ãöà ÃóÃúÃóäö ÃóÃúæöÃãò Ãã ÃÃÃäÃÃ¥ ÃÃÃá ÃáÃÃÃáÃä .." (ÃáÃÃä: 4-1) ""I swear by the fig and the olive, And mount Sinai, And this city made secure, Certainly We created man in the best figure then we made him descend to the lowest bottom of creation, " ((95: 1-4) The quran phrase links between both figs & olives and the aging of the......See More
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