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glennster

glennster

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rich, have you ever planted any grapes? i got about 50 plants from my nursery buddy that i need to stuff in the ground this weekend. gonna plant them along my creek in full sun. soil is a little sandy there. figured i"d set some iron fence posts and string a couple rows of wire between em for the plants to climb on. got any good tips?????
 
Old will probably have several suggestions. I planted several as a kid for an orchard I worked for. They were planted to the same depth as the stock was originally (located by looking at the main stem/vine and finding the zone marking above and below ground, ours were bare root, and had no original pots. The link below seems to confirm what we did. Ours were replanting in an existing small vinyard, with posts and wires already in place. Good luck. Jim
grape planting
 
I can not help you much if any on them since I have not grown grapes before. I have heard but can not say it is fact that they like acid soil.
 
Rich, grapes might work for you. They don't like even a whiff of herbicide in the air and in that valley where you live you just might be isolated enough to make a go of it. Jim
 
Ya I have been told that grapes would grow well here but I have also been told that they take a whole lot of TLC to have them grow well. Plus if I grew them I would then in turn have to find a way to make wine out of them and that again is a lot of work which I'm not ready to get into then there is that Gov. thing I would have to deal with LOL
 
didn't realize the herbicide thing with grapes. they are goining to be planted along the creek, probably 50 feet or so from the edge of the fields. we do spray crops, (corn and soybeans, rr) will this be a problem? i can move them over deeper in the timber stand, but they wont get full sunshine all day, some of the large oaks do shade the area depending on the sun position.
 
well Shucks , Grapes Ought to Grow welll where you are , Old... Ya Don't have to worry about the govmet'if you are making 50 gallon a year for your OWN USE and Christmas and birthday , Wedding , Anniversary , gifts ..ect . .. .. Biggest problem Round Here is Those Real COLD nasty Days ,, When Ya Hate to go back outside in the Cold NASTIES to do all That is needed to be done , and Ya Gotta walk past the Ol'Wine Barrel first ..LOL
 
It's one of the main reasons the grape business left the main ag country. If a farmer sprays 2-4D a half mile away and the air current is moving toward the grapes on a low air pressure evening, the grapes are gonners. We used to have them back in the fifties and early sixties but then 2-4D came along and we lost them.Jim
 
Most Grapes like a dry rockey soil. You need to give them a lot of sun and good air movement. They do not need a lot of fertalizer which forces the tops to grow too fast.Do not plant them near any nut trees. Nut trees and grapes just don"t work Good Luck Ed
 
I had my support wires strung on steel posts.
The weight of the grapes, last fall, bent the
end posts over to 45 degrees. those were T posts.
Now i'm putting in 6 inch diameter treated posts
at the ends and braceing with treated 2 X 4s .
 
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