Comments on: Prune Your Grapes…Now!

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:21:56 +0000

Yes, its a lot of work, but fun. That’s one avantage of being a full time gardener, you have all day to work at it!
Your problem at the back fence line may be a lack of good air circulation. Lack of adequate sunlight can sometimes contribute to general, nondiscript fungal problems too.
I know you’ll have fun with your grapes. Did you know, grapes were the first plant ever cultivated by pruning? People tended them centuries B.C.
Its a good idea to get a soil test to give you an idea of your soil fertility, unfortunately, they don’t test for fungus.

By: vanessa

vanessa — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:46:10 +0000

wow, you do have a lot of work ahead of you…i just picked up my one measly grape vine to start as an experiment this year, still haven’t decided where i’m going to put it, somewhere where it can go crazy, apparently! hopefully i’ll be asking your advice next spring if it survives, i’ll be planting a few more if i can get it to grow…for some reason anything planted along the back fence line seems to develop a fungus despite fungicide applied early in the season. i think i need to have a sample of soil tested to see what is up with my dirt.