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Pergola/ vine

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Last spring, some of you chaps advised me on building a minimal pergola/ vine frame. I've just been out cutting back lots and lots of leaves in a last-ditch attempt to get the grapes to ripen (I didn't know you're supposed to do that), they do seem to have made an effort the last week in spite of the lack of sunshine.
Til last summer, it hadn't produced any grapes; this year it's been very fruitful. Next year we'll be making our own wine. :-)
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Thanks Mark. I planted it 6 or 7 years ago Mike (it's now really too big, invading a couple of trees off-camera - I'll prune it back quite hard in winter), and can't remember the variety, Andy - the little plastic label blew away a while ago. I only really planted it for the leaf cover, the grapes are a happy bonus!
 
They look great.

Ours (the vine grows into our conservatory) have been poor this year. We had lots of bunches, but a fair proportion of the fruit split and quite a few went mouldy. We struggle to make inroads into them anyway because there are so many, so perhaps having fewer this time will be blessing in disguise!
 
Mike G":2bn1thiq said:
How long has it been cropping?
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Last year was the first crop, so four or five years after planting. I don't know if that's typical.

ps We had another little bonus this year when a Turkish friend prepared a dish of lamb and rice wrapped in the leaves (Etli Yaprak Sarma, the web tells me) for us. :-)
 
AJB Temple":2v8aktos said:
oooh lucky you. I would like to get some vines going.
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Me too!
A number of years ago at the old house, I grew quite a few along a fence line. I seem to remember that they rooted quite easily from cuttings.
 
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