{"id":4072,"date":"2014-06-26T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2014-06-26T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T07:00:41","slug":"q-and-a-using-excess-grapes-and-sunroom-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/06\/26\/q-and-a-using-excess-grapes-and-sunroom-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: Using excess grapes and sunroom garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using excess grapes<\/strong><\/p>\n

We bought land 2 years ago which has a very large grape arbor. The grapes were beautiful last year and very covered. When I tried one I was shocked to find they were wine grapes. The fruit under the skin was a pale pink and the taste was very sweet and distinctive. I put up some juice the old way. A cup of grapes and half a cup of sugar in a pint jar processed for a few minutes. But sad to say I lost 99 percent of the grapes and had to watch them rot. Is there a simple way to make wine? No fancy methods just an easy way. They are covered again this year.<\/em><\/p>\n

Janice Dereske<\/em>
\nHowell, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n

Sorry, but we don’t use alcohol so I’ve never made wine. But I’m sure some of our readers do and can give you some tips. But like canning, there isn’t a quick and easy way to make wine — just best ways. Can you readers help out Janice? — Jackie<\/p>\n

Sunroom garden<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because we have both limited outdoor growing space and a large deer population, we have decided to try growing vegetables in our sunroom. So far the tomatoes, carrots, beans, lettuce, and peppers are doing fairly well. The lettuce is a bit “leggy,” but is growing, and we have some little tomatoes. The problem is that we have an infestation of gnats! We do not want to use chemicals on the plants, but have had no luck getting rid of the gnats with insecticidal soap or pyrethrum. Also, the Safer pyrethrum spray burned the leaves on the green beans. Do you have any suggestions of how to get rid of the gnats without damaging the vegetables?<\/em><\/p>\n

Pat Moffett<\/em>
\nPort Angeles, Washington<\/em><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, growing vegetables inside does often mean doing battle with gnats and aphids as there usually aren’t any helpful predators present. We had that problem and I found that using Spinosad worked great. You can often find the brand Captain Jack’s Dead Bug Brew in larger stores. It is a safe organic spray that only kills bugs, not you, your family or pets. And I haven’t had any leaf damage to plants either. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using excess grapes We bought land 2 years ago which has a very large grape arbor. The grapes were beautiful last year and very covered. When I tried one I was shocked to find they were wine grapes. The fruit under the skin was a pale pink and the taste was very sweet and distinctive. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}