Have continued pruning. Am trying for woody shoots out of the initial two shoots. Like the picture below.
I have new found respect for the art of grape growing. And I’ve never even tried making wine!
One thing I should add here. I’ve read that if you are growing vines out in the field that you shouldn’t [...]
I’ve been a little remiss in writing but a couple of weeks ago I finally did my first pruning. I selected the strongest two shoots and pruned away the rest of all the growth. Wondering, what it would be like to prune 10 to 20 acres of vines instead of three. I took some photos, [...]
Well it’s been almost 20 days, and it turns out that they’re actually plants. Exciting stuff. Well, I’m excited. I’m starting to wonder what I have to do next. I’m going to have to read the instructions that my three little vines came with. I’ve been watering them regularly and fertilizing them with MiracleGro for [...]
I haven’t posted for awhile because every post would’ve been, “well, today they still look like sticks.” Kinda boring really. However, now there has been some significant change and I’m pretty excited. Here are the photos.
Vine A.
Vine A is the slowest growing of the three. I was worried about it. And then [...]
Great news! Only day three and already signs of growth.
I have given them the very exciting names of vines A, B, and C. I spent too many years in a lab.
In any case here are the photos,
Vine A doesn’t look as good as the other two.
Here’s Vine B
And Vine C, which I think is the [...]
I’ve said I was going to go over the vineyard inhabitants. They consist of various assorted other plants, and my farm dog, Chip.
See photos of other vineyard inhabitants
Okay, so it was really dinner among the sticks. But it was a nice warm 72 degrees here in Washington, DC — my first outside dinner of the year. The sticks look pretty much the same as they did yesterday. This is going to be like a reality TV show that moves really slowly, [...]
Last September I decided that I was going to try and grow grape vines on my urban balcony in the Spring. So I did some Internet shopping and ordered three Chardonnay vines from Double A Vineyards in Fredonia, NY.
They were scheduled to ship on April 7, so a couple of weeks ago I began to [...]
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