As I’ve proven time and time again, siphoning our homemade wine to rack or bottle it is a perilous undertaking. I’m relieved to report that we recently made a small investment that has greatly simplified the process. We purchesed an “auto-siphon.”
The auto-siphon racking a gallon of homemade wine (Photo: Mark Zeiger).
Somewhere in the final days of March, we began to fell as if spring had finally taken hold. Although we still had plenty of snow on the ground, we had a run of nights that didn’t fall below freezing. Even as the weather system held steady, we could feel a shift. Shoots began poking up out of the snow one day, the next day the snow had retreated from around them, and they’d doubled in size.
Garlic shoots in the snow near the rhubarb patch. (Photo: Mark Zeiger).
