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Farm Report #4
The garden has been growing, despite getting some storm damage that was fortunately easy to repair. I did learn that the inexpensive twine that I thought would be good enough is crap and I should have used real rope.
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- Storm Damage
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- This has never flooded like this before
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- The casualties
About a week after these pics, I checked on the cascade and tettanang hops and both were ready for picking and drying.
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- It seems appropriate to drink an imperial IPA while picking hops. This is Great Lakes’s Lake Erie Monster.
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- Cascade on the dehydrator
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- Tettanang on the dehydrator
These were’n huge yields, but it’s the first year and it’s not even August!
In other news, I entered a pale ale in a the MASH Ales of Summer competition, and I’m preparing entries for another competition.
Cheers!