More productive

[purpletigron]

G & D made a lovely lunch, and N came over in the afternoon. We started sorting through seed catalogues for our autumn order. Also, N had picked a pound of rose hips, and we tried making syrup from them. Nice, and a good way to store vitamin C for the winter. But apparently there are varieties of roses with hips which are nice to eat straight from the bush, which is even better :-)

Clinic in the morning :-)

Comments

[headgardener.livejournal.com]

If you come across some good rose-hip roses -- or deep red roses with proper rose scent, I will be interested in cuttings...

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Rosa rugosa?

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

*sniffle* and here I am, thinking "Rose hip wine! Rose hip wine!!"

Crazy(and also wouldn't mind if I could find the classic roses, none of these new-fangled hybrids, to put in my herb garden...)Soph

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Ooo! We only had one pound of hips this year... do you have a recipe for next year??

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Oooh, ouch! The two recipes I have - one for pure rose hip wine, which calls for a kilo of rose hips, and the other, a rose hip mead, which calls for twice as many rose hips, "four pounds" (so, okay, in a pinch, closer to 1.75 kg).

A rose-hip consortium? Or, supplement with dried from the store - 1 kg fresh equivalent to 250 g dried....

Still, if I were visiting at the right time, it would be no bother to start a batch, and then let it sit quietly in a corner for months and months.

Crazy(well, the occasional racking to get the wine off the yeast sediment... but a household like yours surely can handle a little siphoning, eh?)Soph