talked to a few of the grape sellers in the everett ma area, $45-50 for a lug of CV...and for Delta packing, paso robles, $50-60lug, thats expensive no?..man last year i bought some nice lodi grapes for $36 bucks a lug!!
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Seems the cost of everything is going up. One of the benefits of printing money and dumping it on the market.
But on the bright side, look how much more I'm saving by growing my own.
johnt, You will need serious deer restraints. The 4th year, last year, the deer ate all my grapes, then came back 1 week later & ate all the years new shoots. The vines were FULL & robust when we left for a 3 day camping trip, when we got home there was hardly a leaf left. My vines line my drive way on each side, so I can't really fence them in. I have also seen the deer eat ripe tomatoes off my plants inside of tomatoe cages. We only have the mom & 2 fawn's in the area, saw the buck only once in 5 yrs. Good LUCK! Roy
Grapeman,
you are making me think twice about growing.
I too, like to grow things. I have this field that has a gentile slope and great sun exposure during the day. When I purchased the house, I had planting vines in mind, but I never got around to it.
Is there a effective, low cost method for grapes? I figured on planting 10 or 15 vines and would REALLY like to know what I am in for before I commit.
To compound the problem, My area is infested with deer. How do you go about keeping the deer away?
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