Hi All,
As I noted on a previous thread, we have some very old vines that were here when we bought our house. Still have no idea what kind of grapes they are.
DH finally worked up the gumption to prune and clean it out this weekend. (We had tons of blackberry vines that had become intermingled, and lots of grape vines that had grown about 25 feet into the trees.)
After cleaning out all the dead grape vines, and the blackberry vines, we are now left with 4 or 5 large stumps (approximately 3-4 inches in diameter) that have fresh, budding, grape vines on them. Most of these vines are 8 or 10 feet long.
We definitely need to build some kind of trellis system for them, and wondered what others might recommend??
Also, there are a number of spots on the old vines where the plants seem to be weeping. Is this what others refer to as "bleeding"? Is there anything that we should be doing for this? Or will it simply stop on it's own?
Any other advice that you might think to offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
MaineGal
As I noted on a previous thread, we have some very old vines that were here when we bought our house. Still have no idea what kind of grapes they are.
DH finally worked up the gumption to prune and clean it out this weekend. (We had tons of blackberry vines that had become intermingled, and lots of grape vines that had grown about 25 feet into the trees.)
After cleaning out all the dead grape vines, and the blackberry vines, we are now left with 4 or 5 large stumps (approximately 3-4 inches in diameter) that have fresh, budding, grape vines on them. Most of these vines are 8 or 10 feet long.
We definitely need to build some kind of trellis system for them, and wondered what others might recommend??
Also, there are a number of spots on the old vines where the plants seem to be weeping. Is this what others refer to as "bleeding"? Is there anything that we should be doing for this? Or will it simply stop on it's own?
Any other advice that you might think to offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
MaineGal