Anybody want to grow any grapes this year?
 

I'm going to be triming my mom's vines and will have some real good planters available..white grape, I think they will have seeds unless you graft them out...but no issues, otherwise you'll have some large Thompsons with seeds.

The pruning are good for a few weeks to plant, let me know if you want some.

PS...pretty easy to start a vine...just take the pruning and put it 8-10 inches in the ground, water it and wait.

Do you need warm weather and sunshine to grow grapes?

I tried some vines in Memphis, but they all died.

I know they grow around here - I guess my soil sux!

Grapes are pretty tough, but subject to frost and freeze...if you're just looking for a few vines, it's easy top keep'em under control by covering them up when frost/freeze (assumnig the grape/bulbs are on the vine) sets in.

If soil is too compacted then just put'em in a drum with your favorite compost mix, issue though is like other things you grow, they'll only get as big as the enviropmet they are in.

If you have tight/compacted soil, then dig a large hole...maybe 3 foot n diametere and 2 foot deep, then fill in with a softer loam or compost mix to allow the roots to grow out:)

Soil here is Mississippi river silt - laid down over centuries.

But it does freeze here.

Also...damn...I have some 1/2 barrels cut up that would work just great for you guys to fill in compost/etc, and plant away.

Dang, looks like I'm a one stop Nursery shop!

PS..silt is okay, it's very porous <sp>, but you have towater it quite often, and it doesn't have any "oompas" in it, so you have to add minerals...i/e Mirale grow/etc...otherwise it's like growing in cardboard...just no nutients to keep things going.

GreyWolf, PM your address and I'll be happy to ship'em to you, should be able to get several cuttings in a USPS box and a few days in transit won't hurt them...you just have to get prepped to get'em to grow.

I don't think they would grow very well here because of the lack of sun in my back yard,
and the fact that the area where I live was once nothing but sand dunes,
so the soil is very sandy.

I'm going to spend some time and energy building it up. For now, seeds would be wasted. The consistency is like sand - thin as it is it is like pouring water through a collander....

But I have a plan, it needs to have a lot of ammendments that naturally occur around here. Thank you for the offer! It will be ready over time.


~Wolf

No worries, but just FYI...

Grapes don't need sun to "flower" and make fruit, they like the enviroment more...sure sun helps, but isn't the pre-req...otherwise there would be no Gallo;)

It's not like growing good bud;)

You mean "good 'BUD'weiser" grows on vines? :-X03

Well, ...one you get at the AM/PM, the other you need a doctors note for...either way, both are accessible:)

You mean AM/PM, or our equivalent, 7-11, doesn't sell prescription "BUD''weiser? :)

Not that I would buy prescription beer. :rolleyes:

Well, good ol' Louis that hangs out at the local 7/11, sells whatever you need that ails ya;)

You don't need a prescription, but you have to be quick!