As April draws to a close we can look back on a month of successes. If you missed any of Blagger’s posts this month, here are four highlights.
Brewing and winemaking: We’ve opened our first plum wine. We weren’t sure what to expect as it was the first time we’d made wine without the help of a kit, relying instead on plums we’d picked wild last summer. It was lovely, though, and we both agreed that it was one of the best wines we had ever drunk.
Cheese: Our first homemade cheese is a success, too. It has spent the last 10 weeks slowly maturing in the outhouse, and reeked by the time we cut into it. Inside the thick skin, though, we found a lovely creamy hard cheese.
Growing food: Planting this year’s herbs had us slightly on edge as we weren’t entirely sure that the last of this year’s frosts had passed. We also noticed that our garlic was shooting very quickly, which worried us as we didn’t want it bolting. It’s still growing, but fortunately slowed down a little.
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