My favourite gardening magazine provides a handy “to do” list for each month: when to prepare the soil for the vegetable garden, when to cut the specimens for tree grafting, when to distill the slurry of stinging nettles… In September we add the frenzy of harvest and in October the frenzy of the fermenting wine. Some years ago, when the November magazine arrived, I hesitated to open it. The malolactic fermentation had finally finished; the wine was “done” and pronounced good – a big relief after the usual weeks of worry. What I certainly didn’t need that […]
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