You Grow Your Own Food? Harvest 10-28-12

Lettuce mountain

You Grow Your Own Food? Harvest 10-22-12 and garden pictures

Lettuce

Marigolds

Garlic started to grow

Tunnel vision

Tunnel vision

All sorts of things popping up

Even dandelions are happy in there

Tunnel vision

One of the other beds dressed for winter

You Grow Your Own Food? Harvest 10/13/12 and some growing pictures

Pumpkins beans, and odds and ends.

Monster Amaranth growing out of the compost bin

Tunnel from the side

Inside the tunnel

The marigolds keep on going and going

Winning! Seed Bank

Scott,

You are one of the winners of the Safe Harvest seed bank contest on Facebook via Homestead Survival.
Please send us your address, and we will mail it on Monday.
Congratulations and best wishes,

Jeff
Mine

You Grow Your Own Food? – Low Tunnel completion

Just the short time closed up and there is warmth in there.

What it looks like inside.

You Grow Your Own Food? Harvest 10-9-12

Lettuce, tomatoes, and beans.

Winning! -Seapack Tote

You Brew Your Own Beer? And Cider? – Productive day at Two if By Sea Brewing

Got some brewing done finally. Nothing big, just some things that have been on the back burner for a while. It isn’t easy with two working parents and three kids. My youngest was not feeling good this morning so with our plans to go out canceled, I seized the opportunity to get the Canadian Red kit and kilo kit in. And I transferred my Moravian Pale Ale into a bucket and dry hopped it. To top the day off, I put together a Caramel Apple Hard Cider. Now I just need to get off my butt and bottle that lemon wine…

Far left is the Candian Red and to the right is the Caramel Apple Cider

It takes a lot of 1/2 gallon bottles to make 5.25 gallons of cider…

Product Review-Beer Use: Eva-dry E-500 Renewable Wireless Mini Dehumidifer

I went through my first full cycle of a beer in my ferementation chamber (a chest freezer with temperature control) with an . Works great! I usually find 1/2″ to 1″ of water in the bottom of the freezer after a beer is done. Not a single drop, not even any moisture in there. For $20, this is an investment well worth it. Hopefully it works as advertised drying out by plugging it in. The unit is made out of heavy plastic and looks to be very durable. It comes with a hook to hang it, I hooked it around the glass one gallon carboy I use as a blowoff. There are no batteries or plugs to deal with, the beads inside the unit absorb moisture. The say the beads will last 10 years and there is a 5 year warranty on the unit. This model is supposed to handle 500 cubic feet of area so it is quite a bit of overkill for the space inside a chest freezer; however with the ferment going with warm air and liquids, it is a pretty humid environment so overkill is probable best. The unit is oval in shape, about 8″ long, 6″ high and a couple inches thick so it is easy to fit wherever you need it.

There is the unit in my freezer, hooked on the 1 gallon jug.

I give this product 5 out of 5 hop cones.

You Grow Your Own Food? Harvest 10-2-12

Lettuce, tomatoes, beans, and a kale leaf bound for a smoothie in the morning.