Thanks - that may be an option, though I would prefer to have something coming over the trellises this spring / summer (simply for aesthetics). But if that’s the best course we can live with it.
I removed the trellising and cleared away dead & rotting leaves from years past along with twigs...
Really don't know what kind of vines they are - the grapes had seeds and the skins were pretty tough, but that's really all I have to go on. The former owner said these vines were well-known among the local Portuguese families, as they liked to come over and pick them, presumably for wine...
Sorry for the lack of response - summer got away from me. Here are some photos of the leaves / early clusters and why I thought blackrot. Seemed to match visually a lot of the descriptions I've seen. At this point I'm aiming to do some proper fall / winter maintenance, as the vines are a bit...
Hi all - so we inherited some vines with a house we recently purchased in RI. The vines are pretty wild now and we'd like to try and tame them if at all possible. The major one (in the pictures) forms a full canopy over a supported trellis-type structure and consists of what looks to be 3...
Great - thanks. I started removing obviously infected clusters and sections of the vine (leaves and shoots) - when doing so, should I cut back the entire shoot to the cane (I think I have that terminology right), or just remove leaves and infected clusters? There certainly is a lot of new...
Hi all - we recently purchased a home with 2 large and not well maintained grapevines of unknown variety (in RI). When I say large, I mean one trellis is pretty much a canopy 12 x 10 (actually looks to be 2 stems) and the other is a half-arc along a fence about 8 feet high and 10 feet long...