Marechal Foch Wine

Keep a 6- to 8-foot distance between plants and 9 feet between rows. Are widely grown fruits and perennial vines. The fruits are developed on new shoots, called canes, which are useful for the preparation of jellies, pies, wine and juice while the leaves...

Finally, add potting soil and plants. To brighten up plain barrels, encourage your kids to help decorate the outside of the barrel use bright, weather-grade paints. Garden containers crafted from used barrels can add a whimsical accent to landscaping...

In the classic Arsenic and Old Lace, Aunt Abby and Aunt Martha poisoned lonely old bachelors with their concotion of spiked elderberry wine. It grows in most zones and tolerates part shade well, even though it prefers full sun.

You might add a few tablespoons of port to the wine about halfway through the poaching, as well. Sophisticated, seasonal and simple: I love this combination of fruit, chocolate and wine.

I have a collection of lots of different wrapped flasks, or fiasci, as they are called here. He had a bunch of grapevines growing around his yard and lots of bottles of different wines that he had made, and he loved explaining the whole deal to me.

Strain through a cloth and add white sugar, lemons, yeast. For the less health conscious, just pour the bacon fat over it all. Just remember, the younger leaves are good raw, the older ones can be bitter and should be cooked.

These can be purchased at home and garden or home improvement stores during the growing season. If you have planted flowers in a flower pot before, you can master arranging flowers in a wine barrel planter.Purchase a new or used wine half-barrel.

Jubaea chilensis is one of the most awesome landscape palms in cultivation and an easy and hardy palm as well. Water these either by drip or low sprinklers/emitters that do not get the crowns wet with tap water.Yet one could certainly say this sort of...

The month-long Down to Earth celebration gives all wine lovers the opportunity to spend time with some of the winemakers who make the effort to help keep their community clean. Photo by iStockphoto/Thinkstock To coincide with Earth Day (April 22), many...

Warm regions with hot, dry days and cool, humid nights are ideal for growing wine grapes,. There are over 20 species of wild grape throughout Canada and the United States. A good nursery will be able to direct you as to which varietals are suitable for...

Sherry spans the spectrum from dry, light and crisp to dark and sweet. Sherry is more alcoholic than wine, but its mild warm flavor may virtually transport you to Mediterranean Spain.

Don't bother peeling or coring apples, as you'll strain out impurities during pressing. Here are six of my favorite crops that you could soon be sipping on. To collect rose petals, wait until flowering rose buds are just past their peak and petals are...

In much of the world, winter brings chilled fingers, raspy throats, and increased stress, as we hurry around preparing for the holidays, or recovering from them! A hot mulled beverage is the perfect way to slow down, warm up from the inside out, and reflect...

Fox, summer and riverbank grapes are hardy in USDA zones 6 through 9, 3 through 7 and 3 through 9, respectively. The leaves of wine grape range from 3 1/2 to 11 inches long, depending on the variety.

The grapes won't ripen off the vine, but a hard freeze will ruin them. Even with cold hardy grape varieties, the northern gardener will probably be leaving the grapes on the vine well into early fall, sometimes up to the first killing frost of the season.This...

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Keep reading to learn more about functional landscaping and how to create a “Grow and Make” garden.What are garden makers? It is, essentially, growing plants for hobbies. Many homebrewersfor beer, and even add some of their fruits and vegetables to...

Cap and store in all a dark place for at least a month. Honey -scented and golden, Pineau de Charentes is a wine fortified with cognac that comes from the region of the same name. You can also steep herbs in alcohol (white rum, gin or vodka) and sugar.

I'm having more than enough fun to make it through a few problems. The adventure at the new office/studio continues. Photo by Rick Gush I inherited old wine bottles with my new studio and office.

In part 2 of this 3 part series, I will discuss those hardy (zone 5 and colder) shrubs whose main claim-to-fame is their red to purplish foliage. These shrubs are wonderful additions to the landscape, complimenting blue, purple and red flowers or contrasting...

Some folks go on wine tasting tours of Napa Valley. We soon discovered we were not alone on our quest. Compared to the cost of even a regular black coffee in one of those cups with the familiar green logos, importing our own freshly roasted Kona seemed...

It's fairly heady stuff, but fortunately today's refractometers have built-in scales and temperature compensation that makes using one a snap. It's a bit like cooking without ever tasting as you go, following a recipe but never checking doneness, texture,...

Add quince and simmer until soft. The Hispanic jam is traditionally served in blocks along with cheese, so I scooped up half dozen of those I found that day to make into holiday gifts.

Freshly harvested potatoes are thin-skinned and moist. Capers Vinaigrette 6-8 T. High-quality extra-virgin olive oil 2-3 T. So this past Sunday, a lunch I prepared for guests included potato salad.

I have seen mulberry trees flourishing in soil that other plants hate. Not only does the berry itself stain anything it touches, but droppings from a bird that has snacked on mulberries will stain as well.

The websites can tell you where to purchase these NY micro-products. Tuthilltown now has pretty wide distribution in the metro area. The recent locavore interest in the revival of smaller farms has preserved the nearly-gone agriculture there.

They couldn't even wait for their bread to rise! Read more of The Hungry Locavore » Tags Hungry Locavore , Judith Hausman , locavore , Passover , tradition You should allow either of these to mellow a little before serving.