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Some apricots froze this year. We had our Mormon apricot and Italian prune flowering happily and then the snow fell and there was frost several nights. My son's apricots were plentiful, his tree blooms and produces earlier than ours. I thought Utah was squirrel free till we saw 2 of them in SLC...

I would add some plums to my meat stews as well as to some vegetable soups (2-3-4 pieces depending on how big your pot is). Also, I would make plum sauce instead of cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner. Meats love sweet and sour fruity additions. I would also put my plums and apples into...

Welcome! I have only young trees in my orchard, so we eat all fruits fresh. But I have plans to make wines from my fruits and berries in a few years. Good luck to you!

We finished picking and destemming our Frontenac. We have only 1 vine. 8lbs of berries are now in freezer waiting for the rest of our grapes to ripen.

We decided to buy fresh grapes from https://www.baywinebrokers.com/shop/ We need practice before our vines start producing enough for our needs.

I am also buying most of my vines from Double A. On year one buy juice, then maybe buy frozen must on year 2, and on year 3 buy fresh grapes and make your wine from them. There are lots of possibilities! I regret of wasting 2 years and making all our mistakes on the third year. Good luck to you!

Already harvesting our Frontenac. It grows about 3 feet away from the Southern wall of our house. Wery hot and dry spot. It tastes delicious, I regret the berries are so small and have hard seeds. I would eat them all fresh and buy my wine at store (I am lying of course 😅 !) Cabernets are not...

My Frontenac has small berries too and wasps love how they taste! They even decided to build a new nest there which I found and destroyed. Last year we harvested all our grapes on same day at the end of September. This year Frontenac has brix 25+ already (my husband received his refractometer 3...

My Eastern Concord is still very green, and berries are small (Utah, close to Salt Lake City). I have a single vine of it. But my Isabella (2 vines growing next to Concord) is gorgeous! Beautiful medium sized berries, lovely color but also not ready to be harvested. I am following you and hoping...

Welcome! I am also a new member on this forum, happy to have such a knowledgeable person here. I have 3 years of experience in grape vines growing but have just realized that I did almost everything wrong. I also prefer to avoid chemicals as much as possible. My fruit trees are young so...

Hello, yesterday I harvested 1/2 of our Frontenac (average Brix was 25++ 3 days ago and many berries are turning into raisins already). My husband destemmed them; I placed the bag into freezer, and we were planning to finish harvesting the rest of the berries this evening. But it is raining! We...

I believe this method adds more yeast in addition to the natural one that is found on grapes🤣 The answer to your question is "I am not sure". We were buying glass jars of homemade wines one summer (long time ago) while on vacation (Carpathian Mountains,1990?).

Beautiful, thank you! Too much even for me🤣

You should see the sanitation in our hospitals that we had back in the USSR. Or meat/milk/vegetable processing factories. Or our farmers' markets. Or this guy's older videos on wine making

Thank you, I appreciate your advice. We are looking for manual version, but definitely Enoitalia is one of the brands we are considering. Thanks to all commentators who contributed!

Thank you! I was looking for reliable channels on YouTube providing step by step instructions. There are so many people on YouTube who don't know what they are doing but pretend to be great experts. That's what we did last year, followed one Italian guy's video instructions on how to make a few...

Thank you so much! Great information, thanks for your time. We are looking at them right now.

You are so kind, thank you so much! I will contact you if we need your thing, but we are hoping to buy our own. I will check Enoitalia online and tell my husband to check it too.

Congratulations on having such a great harvest this year! We did have some grapes last year, destemmed and crushed by hands and then by potato masher. Don't ask what happened to our first "wine" :D I drunk it alone and it was yummy, but my husband refused, declared emergency, bought books...

Thank you! Looks nice!