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by Jim Bruce
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Excellent write up. Precise and practical, both for beginners and matured gardeners. I wish you would also write on planting fruit trees. Thank you. S.P.Nayak M.D.
Hi: I am a backyard gardener in Staten Island, New York. My crop consist of 30 tomatoe plants, 8 fig trees and various other vegtibles. Can you suggest a variety of grapes I can grow in my zone? I have 12 x6 feet of open area in which I plan to build a arbor for 4 grap vine (plants). Thanks.....Tony From SI, NY
what preperations need to be done to the soil before planting? I live in NC and plan to plant on a slight hill with a southern exposure. Jay M.
I live in NC. My husband built me a beautiful arbor. It is 7+ feet tall. Can grape vines reach the top of that?
Hello I read many aricles, so this is very good to confirm what I learned. I going to have a home vineyard of about 50 grapevine in Austria/middle-Europe. In my part of the country the weather isn't that warm constantly, so we use to prune leaving only one cane of about 5 to 8 buds. So the ripenig is possible for getting rich red wines. bye Herwig Zesar
HELP!! We have a grape vine that was here before we moved in...20 years ago. It has been on the ground, in the patio area, and all we have done is cut it back a couple times during the summer to keep it from taking over the patio! But finally we had an arbor/trellis built so that it will grow up and over....now my task is to figure out how to "train" it...do I just pull each vine over the trellis until it takes hold, then let it go?? Should I tie each vine on? Can it go in and out of the slats of wood, or should I keep it on the outside only? Then, once it is growing, what do I do with it when it gets all the way over the other side?? Prune it back?? And how much?? We will use the leaves for cooking, but I don't know if it will give us grapes or not. It never has before, and I assume that's because it was growing on the ground. Anything you can tell me will help, I'm sure!! I live in Mid-Michigan - Zone 5 I believe. THANK YOU!!!
Hi there, thanks for this forum. I purchased a house with a couple of grape plants growing on it. I am in my first year of growing and they are coming along beautifully. The question is how do I find out what kind of grapes they are as the previous owner is no longer around to tell me? Thanks Scott
Hi.. I'm Anthony and i live here in the Philippines. Im a begginer in growing these vines. I have 2 vines and i don't know their varieties. The other one has green big leaves and the other one has small violet leaves. We are a tropical country (we don't have winter).These are my questions:>Can you elaborate further the pruning process?>How will i know when to prune and how much will i cut?>What variety of grapes will grow here in the Philippines?>How many times will i prune my grapes since we are in a tropical country?>How many days will it takes for the fruit to ripen?>What is the difference between spur and cane pruning? What part of the vine should be cut?>Should we remove all leaves when pruning?
I enjoyed your web site very much,a lot of info.I have a problem though and do not know what is causing my grapes which look beautiful until they just start to turn color .They shrivel up like raisins and get moldy. Do you know what causes them to do this.Thank you ,Joe
Very interesting and I am inspired to try it out too. But can concord grapes be successfully grown in Uganda, East Africa? I love something like that for my family.
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