Recent content by treesaver

Yes, the wood you cut off does not bear fruit, only the new growth on grapes bear this years fruit. I would not be worried to prune anytime from now on, but I’m oldand kinda like doing it in a bit warmer weather than at present! If you want to keep the arbor, just pick out two main trunks per...

Many places on old farm homesteads have an arbor such as yours. Seen many that have prolly never been pruned for years or maybe never. Most people are scared to cut them back, and I’d bet the farm that they are concord. First thing I’d do is cut back severely, and establish several main...

I hear you, bud. When it used to work and now doesn’t, I find weird. I ask myself, what has changed! The only thing that really changed for me was starting in sand, which I used to do, and….I’m pruning later, so the vines are being started later. This year I am going to take cuttings for...

My mamma always told me that if you fail, try try again. I’ve got about two acres of grapes, and the largest part of that is from vines that I rooted myself. It is kinda weird, but the first six or eight years I rooted vines, almost all of them took off, now the last four or five years, I have...

Why not root some cuttings? I don’t grow it, but I bet some on here do!

When the seeds turn brown, your within a month! After that do a random brix check in the vineyard. My biggest problem is always insects. Wasps are always a plauge, but this year, some kind of moth was sucking the berrys dry, all of a sudden. I sprayed as soon as I found them, but it was...

Mine also! Netted my verona the other day also. I'm hoping to make it a week yet before I pick, the brix has been between 18 and 25 on what I checked yesterday. I've got to go to Wy for a couple days the 19 and 20th. They need to hang till I get home!

Yep, that's hail damage alright. I've had berries split in half before, and seeds sticking out. Some of them will heal, some not! Yeah, the life of a farmer!

All of my cultivars are early this year. Wonder why! Frontenac is not much earlier than usual, but the verona and concord is gonna be right behind it....within a few days. Even the norton has some pink clusters, and is still a long way off, but I usually pick it the end of September.

Andy, I'm gonna give your question a stab. I did last year and decided against it this year. Several things entered in. When I cut them back last year, I haad a zillion more stubs that hooked on my nets, making it very hard to get the nets on and off. That was the big reason I left them on...

Yeah, I got three projects. All have been sitting after I moved here. Had too much to do to get back to them. A 32 chevy, ground up build is about 60% done, a 40 chevy PU, and a 60 chevy 2dr station wagon, that I used to drag race fourty years ago. Don't think I'll live long enough to finish...

Did thhe mustang make the move?

I just netted my frontenac this morning. Just finished one row, and a mockingbird flew to that row and discovered his meal wasn't free anymore! lol

What vines are those? I have frontenac that grows like that. Gave them a haircut last year, and had a heck of a time with my netting. Think I'll just leave them alone this year, besides I haven't had time. Some fronds are over six feet long. We are getting rain, finally. Rained hard last...

Andy, I used a small dose, about a trird of a cup, and hoed it in in a circle about at the drip line of the plants. This is sea salt that is collected for this purpose, not what you would buy to salt food with. The sea has a marvelous echosystem, that balances way over a hundred micro and...