Posts Tagged as ‘container garden’

May 27, 2008

Pruning Part II

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 [...]

May 26, 2008

Pruning, pruning

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, [...]

April 28, 2008

They’re actually plants!

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 [...]

April 12, 2008

Vineyard Inhabitants

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