Friday, November 16, 2012

Wild grapes...

Had a 'bumper' harvest from the wild grapes in our property...
All in all, 2.2 kilograms... whoopee...
This, compared to last year when I could hardly get any harvest...
Perhaps there is some truth in plants alternating between bumper harvest and poor harvest... no?
There is absolutely no need to take care of them...
All I did was to prune them down, and rather brutally at that too...
The fruits are just about 5 millimeters in diameter...
There is little flesh in them...
And the best way to enjoy them, I thought, was to turn them into juice...
Managed to make about 12 liters of delicious wild grape juice from them...
No additives of any kind... and with each sip, hmmm, the feeling of pure delight...

18 comments:

  1. Anonymous11/16/2012

    It looks so delicious and healthy. :)

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  2. In life, we have also up and down, right and wrong,etc.

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  3. Congrats Lrong!
    The thing about harvest is you never know what's in store for you. Better not to expect so much and mother nature will reward you.
    You make me drooling with that sip..lol!

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    1. As they say, 'expectations bring disappointments'?

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  4. U made me so envy of ur grapes. I even have to tried so hard to plant them and only hope for their blooms...

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    1. Am very lucky indeed... the wild grapes have been growing here for many many years already... long before we even start to own the property...

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  5. Your graape juice sure looks delicious, love the color. Is that concentrated juice or you added water?

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    1. I added a little water, just sufficient to have to have the grapes immersed... and it is quite concentrated...

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  6. I find that quite a few fruits give bumper crops in alternate years. Plums in particular seem to do it.

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    1. As in day and night, ying and yang... :=)

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  7. yummy grapes! 12L of grape juice? That's great!

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    1. Am enjoying the last two liters of the juice this week...

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  8. Wahhh beautiful colour. The juice really look expensive.

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    1. Yeap, I love the deep color of the juice too...

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