Grape Juice the Color of a Jewel

grapes_02This season has been terrible for most summer annuals – tomatoes, peppers, squash, and the like – but fantastic for the small fruits in the garden.  Blueberries, gooseberries, lingonberries, and currants have all been ridiculously productive, and I even harvested a single huckleberry, the first produced by the plant in its eight years in the garden.  And then there’s the grapes.  I have three kinds in the garden:  Red Flame Seedless, Lady Finger, and Black Monukka.  Of these, only the first two have produced fruit, and the Lady Finger only a few at that.

 

grapejuice_01The Red Flame on the other hand is quite productive, and never more than this year.  Yesterday I picked maybe eight big bunches, juiced them, and then filtered the juice using three coffee filters.  The result was about a quart of beautiful, flavorful, healthful juice.  Lucky me.

 

This entry was posted in Fruit and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink.

One Response to Grape Juice the Color of a Jewel

  1. Pingback: Pruning and Propagating and Hoping… | food|forest|garden

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.