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Growing Grapes...a home vineyard experiment
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Goals
Wooden trellis that would be decorative and built to last
Table grapes for juice, raisins and eating
Producing by 2010
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Building a wooden trellis system....summer of 2008
4x4 middle posts, cross members, and supports
6x6 end posts
4 wires with tensioners to maintain 250 lbs. tension. Each wire is about 100 feet long
anchors in the ground at each end with turnbuckles to maintain tension
raised beds surrounded by landscape stones
mulched area on each side for easy access





Finished Trellis system turned out great, time for some growing...
2009 -- Off to a bad start.
The first plants (bare roots) from Ty Ty nursery in GA didn't make it thru the winter. ( I don't recommend them for a number of reasons)
While trying to get replacements (or a refund from Ty Ty), I ordered 4 plants from Bob McCandlish www.mccandlishlivestock.com in June 2009. These plants arrived promptly, with foliage, and are doing well.
Thompson Seedless
Red Flame
Suffolk Red
Black Monukka's
A few pix from July 2009



September 2009....some growth. Waiting for the TyTy replacements in fall


