Homesteading (9b): Clearing undergrowth – part 2
Ivan shows you the results of his clearing of a densely-overgrown border (apologies for the poor sound quality in some parts of this video!).
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Not sure if this will work for you with the haw berries but I make plum
wine at home. Soak the fruit for hour or two to remove any dust that will
cloud the liqueur. Rinse well. To 700g pitted almost ripe plums (seeds
contain cyanide) add 200g brown sugar. Add enough 40% vodka to cover. Don’t
stir but jiggle the glass jar every week to slowly dissolve sugar. Will
start cloudy but clears with age as it settles, ready at 2, best with age.
Haws are more tart so you may need more sugar.
AussiePharmer
April 24, 2015 at 10:23 pm
Yes, there are deer ticks and the disease, a very serious one, is Lime’s
Disease. Our dog, Bona, picked them up the whole time and our neighbour
once got three when out mushroom picking and had to go to hospital to have
them removed.
Ivan Kinsman
April 24, 2015 at 10:47 pm
A Poland question: do your tall grasses and undergrowth harbor woodticks in
the spring and most of summer? Any diseases associated with woodticks or
mosquitoes in your area?
sesanner
April 24, 2015 at 10:51 pm
I am probably too late, but all those small branches rather than burning
them would make an excellent ‘hugelkultur’ garden bed. Many people just dig
a long ditch across sloping ground, fill it with any organic waste matter,
add some manure in, and cover it with dirt to form a mound. The idea being
that over winter and spring the wood soaks up snow melt/rain, and nourishes
trees that you grow along the bed even through hot summers. The wood will
slowly rot over many years and feed the trees.
AussiePharmer
April 24, 2015 at 11:26 pm
Sounds good. This is very like sloe gin or sloe vodka as we make it here in
Poland. However, interesting that you use brown and not white sugar and we
will give this a try. Thx. for watching.
Ivan Kinsman
April 24, 2015 at 11:58 pm
Anybody got any good ideas ref. hawthorn berries e.g. liqueur?
Ivan Kinsman
April 25, 2015 at 12:21 am