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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 02:17:00 EDT
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Re: growing grapes

Here in Colorado where the summers are short and the winters cold, many
nice fruits, including various grapes, don't survive.  But some, like
Concord, really go to town.  Last year I got over 30 pounds of grapes
off only three (3) plants, each about four years old.

>> 1. How best to build a grape arbor?  What do they look like, anyway?

Well, in my case one is growing up a two-foot-wide piece of chicken wire
suspended from the eaves in front of the house.  The others are on
plastic netting suspended from 2x2s rails across 2x4 poles with treated
bottoms, set into concrete.  The netting fence was great for various
climbing annual vegetables; now that it is wearing out, the grapes are
taking over, helping support the netting (and themselves) from the rails.

By running some more 2x2s, and light wood strips or netting, across the
tops between "fences" I could allow the grapes to form a cover if I
wanted to.  Strange, but it works.

Alan Silverstein