gardenbug8's Blog
gardenbug8's posts about: grapes
How to care for grape vines. Please help.
Jun 27, 2008 | 11:09 AM PST
Tag: grapes
I have a 2 year old concord seedless and a 3 year old flame grapes growing up a pergola. Any experienced grape growers out there? My question is how often do you water them and do they need fertilizer. My grapes seem to be growing good. I made the mistake though that I thought the flame was only two years old and the concord is three years old but after checking my records, it was the other way around. However, thinking that the flame was only two years old, I pruned all the clusters leaving only 6 but on the other hand, I left all the clusters on the concord and now there are about 2 dozen grape clusters growing and beginning to get ripe. I should have pruned the concords heavier than the flames. I water them once a week. Any sugestions or advice?
Jun 27, 2008 | 11:09 AM PST
Tag: grapes
I have a 2 year old concord seedless and a 3 year old flame grapes growing up a pergola. Any experienced grape growers out there? My question is how often do you water them and do they need fertilizer. My grapes seem to be growing good. I made the mistake though that I thought the flame was only two years old and the concord is three years old but after checking my records, it was the other way around. However, thinking that the flame was only two years old, I pruned all the clusters leaving only 6 but on the other hand, I left all the clusters on the concord and now there are about 2 dozen grape clusters growing and beginning to get ripe. I should have pruned the concords heavier than the flames. I water them once a week. Any sugestions or advice?
A nice day today than yesterday
Jun 5, 2008 | 8:51 AM PST
Tags: grapes , corn
Jun 5, 2008 | 8:51 AM PST
Tags: grapes , corn
Tuesday night and Wednesday, we had some strong winds again. Today is nice and calm so I was able to do a lot of weeding since 5:36 a.m. and took pictures.
I had to put a bucket besides the restraints already in there to prevent the wind from toppling down the corn stalks yesterday but I might as well keep it there as I'll never know when another strong winds is coming.
First pictures are the Concord grapes. Some look good but others are so bruised by the strong winds as they touch the wires on the pergola. Last picture is Flame grapes which for some reason are far behind the Concords. I don't know why but the Flames were only showing a small swell on the stems when the Concords had lots of leaves already.
