New England B.S. Thread

I have to try some more from Jack's Abby. Their Hoponius Union was pretty good.

 

Yes. I have seen this around but never tried it.

 

Did you guys just get it also? Last friday was the first day they had it in CT i believe.

 

Morning all. What's everybody doing this weekend?

 

Pretty good seats last night .

 

Nice. Did you stay till the end of the game?

 

Working... Covering at a different job site today, have tomorrow off though.

 

i'll go find them at the store, nice to see you back on the forum, you've been quite for a while

 

Took a picture of the sunflowers in the front boxes at my house this morning:



They're starting to develope flower heads, so I wanted to get a 'bragging rights' shot of them before the weight of the blossoms starts keeling them over, haha!

 

I got some from a store in Bellingham MA. I don't know if anyone has it in RI. Maybe Yankee Spirits.

 

No we took off just after halftime . We both had to work this morning at 6 .

 

I like shock top, bluemoon, angry orchard, smithwicks and summer shandy.

 

So far the only shandy I've had I didn't like. Too sweet for beer.

 

The curious traveler is nice and bitter

 

Moring All

very nice! what is your secret, could not get ours to grow at all

waiting to get my baby back..at the dealer I got it from getting some new shoes...they had those dunlops on them

 

Leinenkugel is ok but the shocktop one is better. I brought a case of angry orchard and a case of the shocktop summer shandy when I went away with the guys cause they are easier to get down in the am (hair of the dog). The smithwicks is heavy enough I cant do alot of them so my go to was the regular shocktop and yuengling light

 

Noel what do you use the sunflowers for. People I mmy neighborhood have them but they just seem to be left to die at the end of summer

 

I have seen it at the place I frequent out here too.

 

Don't know that I have a secret...
The bricks from the house warm up the soil in those front boxes nice and early in the season, so they don't have any problem germinating, and I refresh the garden with a truckload or two of manure in the fall, work it in to the soil with some lime, and let it set all winter.
The soil stays a little drier than the rest of the garden, just because the house blocks the rain a little. Maybe that's it? My hot peppers seem to do best in that location, maybe for the same reason.

The variety that I plant does one massive blossom, usually 8-16 inches across. So you get really big fat seeds. I cut the flower heads off when the seeds are ripe, let them dry for a week or so, and pull the seeds out. Then I soak the seeds overnight in salt water and roast them in the oven, and eat them, same as the sunflower seeds you can buy at the store.

Any heads that don't get big enough for that treatment (like if they get frosted too early or something) we leave out for the songbirds.

 

Any of you guys who like shandys try the new Sam Adams Porch Rocker? It's pretty good.