Boy. am I tired!!
I pruned all the grapes…it took all day. Notice that these are on a decorative arbor, not a standard arbor. The arbor is about 8 feet high and 99% of the vines are growing on top. So I have to climb on top of the arbor and stand on those 2 by’s, then bend down and prune.
I’m not complaining, mine you, I enjoy pruning grapes. I just wanted to give you feel for a day in the life of a gardener.
You saw the “before photo” a couple of posts ago. Here it is in progress:
Here it is at the end of the day today:
This arbor is about 100 feet long.
You can’t see it in this photo, but I left the lower vines on the main trunk this year because I want to encourage them to grow like a conventional two wire system below. These are very vigorous Concord grapes and should be able to cover the entire arbor. I had this set up until two years ago, when I removed the lower wires thinking it would look more “artistic”. I like it better the original way with the wires.
Tomorrow I will be back in the greenhouse to transplant seedlings if it is rainy. Otherwise, I’m outside cleaning up the vegetable beds.
Speaking of beds, I think I’m going to bed early tonight.
Bob
I looked at the grapes yesterday. Instead of pruning, I cleaned up some of the perennial beds.
Maybe I’ll prune this weekend.
Good idea, Vicki. Its supposed to be nice and warm this weekend, which will probably encourage those perennials to really “take off”. The buds on our grapes are a little “fuzzy” but haven’t swollen all that much as of today.