Looking like a fruitful year for the vine. . .
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Wonderful! Maybe someday I’ll try growing grapes. 🙂
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You could grow lots of short-season varieties on your beautiful grounds!
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Thank you(and your husband too) as opinion seems divided. However, judging from the photo, yours are doing well- I will tell Mum tomorrow. A small moth might be able to shelter under her vine at the moment…
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At least I’ve never thought of moths as a threat to the welfare of grapes. . . .
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Mum has a plague of aphids at the moment- she was spraying these strange orange and black bugs with soapy water and I yelled “No! They’re ladybird larvae and good for the garden!” Hopefully they’ ll be ok, they’ve just had a bit of a wash….
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Oh! Neither have I now you come to mention it…
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I also need to clarify that our grapevines are in their third year, which is why they’re bearing so much fruit. I never intended to give the impression that these were new plants, and I was slow to catch on if you assumed they were–I’m sorry!
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No I could see they were older than Mum’s and they look as if they’re growing really well…I wanted to know the secret…!
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I guess it’s bug control and the prairie sun. . . .
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Whatever you’re doing they look great! Will be interested to see pictures in August : )
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Yeah–God willing and the prairie sun doesn’t crack my lens! 🙂
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I am sad that we are likely to have an August similar to our June….rain interspersed with five minutes of sunshine…
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That’s pretty regular in the Isles, isn’t it?
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We always aspire to the summers of our childhood, when the sun shone, it only rained in autumn and snow stayed in winter where it was supposed to ..*sigh*
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Ah, yes. . .I’ve changed locations enough to understand. . . .
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That’s so impressive! My mum bought a grapevine a month ago and it’s growing quite nicely but you have GRAPES!!!
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They’ll get bigger and ripen by August. . . . 🙂
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Is it right you can’t let them fruit for the first year..?
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I referred this to my resident-expert husband: you can, but most grapes won’t fruit the first year anyway. If they do, they won’t usually bear very many their first year. When we got a few their first year, we still had a fruitful bounty the second and subsequent years.
I wanted to add the other virtue of our vines: the provision of shade in Effieland. Effie loves napping under them!
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