Very cool Kevin! I moved from Napa Ca to the beautiful Ozarks of Missouri last November. Started homesteading on the new 25 acres! I’m so amazed at what you’ve accomplished since you purchased your new place! Have always loved your show and knowledge! 💯🤙
Great job on your grapes🍇😊 About 5 years ago, I started some grapes from seed. (I really love starting trees/plants from seed myself, there’s just some thing about it). Nonetheless, last summer, I built my own trellis for them to grow on. It’s actually a garden arch which goes from my deck to my yard, and it came out pretty nice. I used some cut branches from my backyard trees, I wish I could post a photo here, I think you all would enjoy it. Now I am just waiting for my grapes to fruit. I wonder if I’m doing something wrong because they have not yet fruited and they should be old enough to give fruit. I guess I’ll have to do a little research. But my plants are gorgeous, just no fruit yet. ❌⭕️🙏🏽♥️
@@DracoTriste one of my grapes I bought at the store here locally, it’s a white grape. The other, I had some red seeded grapes that I bought at the store. And I just planted a few in a pot to see what I would get. Fortunately, I had about eight plants. Unfortunately we moved from So Cal to Houston and I had to ship all my plants, they suffered a little bit. Most of them died, and I was able to keep the one that lived, my other plants lived because they were more mature did better. I grew some lemon trees, mandarin orange trees, apple trees, and mulberry trees, and many more items that I shipped to myself. I still have a few things in pots that I haven’t transplanted yet I need help because our soil is very hard clay. I have to wait till my husband has time since he still working. Thanks for asking. God, bless you. ❌⭕️🙏🏽♥️
Inspiring video! Last fall i took hardwood cuttings from my neighbours' grape vines, a year before i started some grape plants from tasty shop bought grapes and bought 4 varieties of my favourite red grape wine vines grenache/garnacha & dornfelder and just in case the cuttings would fail. But now i have 7 grape vines (2 varieties) from cuttings, 2 plants from seeds and the 4 plants i bought = 13 in total :D I think i ran a little bit crazy with this hobby and yeah there must be something mystical or holy in this kind of plant and fruit. My garden is a so called Kleingarten (in German) / allotment garden (en) with less than 300 m2 / 3200 square feet space and now i have to do some conceptional work to do on wich kinds of trellis systems i will grow them. Has someone already found out that Jesus was a gardener? He grew vine grapes and gave same water to grow. That was the trick. Let me end this nonscientific excurse with a quote from the singer Kimya Dawson: 'Jesus came turned water into wine. i turned it back, now everything's fine.'
Double nut (tighten 2 nuts against each other) it at the end of the threaded part. Then use 1/4 hex to 3/8 socket adapter. Then put that on an impact drill.
I’m sure you have heard, but a tropical storm is forming south of Mexico. Looking to turn into a hurricane and head right your way. Something to be mindful of. Be safe and keep gardening!
Great video! And cool that you get some avos. When I used to live in Valley Center (near Escondido) I had 10 avocado trees on the property, and let me tell you I felt like a rich man :) I didn't plant any of it though, so I can't take the credit. Thank Mother Nature for that one.
I planted my grapes in front of my veg garden fence. I end up with fungus and have to spray them every year otherwise I would lose the crop. My daughter who set up her own vinyard said they do need more air circulation. I want to move them away from the fence.
Research actually found that there was no diff in energy stores in grapevines with pruning just after fruit harvest vs later in the year so if you gotta prune end of summer it shouldn't cause any issues!
My neighbors growing up had a grape trellis and sometimes I'd sneak over there and snag a couple and man...to this day, no grape hits like those grapes did! Just bought our own property last week and looking forward to finally getting to implement this myself!
Can't really grow grapes without a trellis... Okay, I'll be sure to tell the wild Concord grapes overtaking the back yard they can't grow without a trellis 😅
Concord grapes have very different leaves that are far more resistant to powdery mildew. On the coast if you don't trellis these non Concord grapes you are going to have a lower chance of success
Did you plant and trellis your grapes on a north-facing wall? ... or are you filming in the morning? I've found that grapes like to be in the direct sunlight of the afternoon (slightly southwest facing)
I'm no expert but that should work. Just ensure that the arches are planted in the ground well because the weight could tip things over once your grape vine grows large. Your main grape vine should be undisturbed and it will become really huge overtime so I would at least have a post for support.
Hi Kevin, this may be irrelevant but please don't forget to write off your Katana as an advertising expense. I entirely expect you to fruit ninja some grapes for us.
I have planted at least 5 or 6 new grapevines in the past 3 years. ALL of them are DEAD. I did the trellis, fertilizing, sunshine etc. This morning (April 18, 2024), I transplanted wild blackberries to my trellis. Lots of people have vineyards here. Some have giant grapevines on a huge pergola and tons of grapes. Mine never got more than a few leaves, and were less than knee high.
Perfect timing as I'm getting ready to put up some grape trellises on either side of my new archway leading into my produce garden. Thanks again for another great video!
I used to have grapes out in the East County, and every year about the third week in January when we get a mild Santa Ana and lots of warm sunshine, I would spray the vines with a pretty dilute powdered milk and water. I never had mildew on my grapes later in the year when I remembered to do this. You have to spray when everything is dormant and it gets warm and sunny. Hope that works out next to the fence. Is that south facing?
I've used regular whole milk mixed with water for cukes and zucchini, but always when it was "too late". I trust you that it prevents but can also attest that it helps keep the PM at bay after you get it... of course there's no natural method that I've heard of for actually killing the PM since it's a systemic infection. It's one of the only sprays that I've used that requires being sprayed in the sun and it's simple to clean out of the backpack sprayer unlike NEEM (which I love, but it's a pain).
Do you have a video about your fence? I’ve been wanting to do something similar around my A/C unit, to hide the ugliness when I’m shooting videos in my backyard. If you have an affiliate link for the metal you used, I’d love to access it!
I didn’t get any grapes my first year. I got bare root one year old plants. I planted pole beans in the same area to amend any nitrogen issues. Worked great. I didn’t want grape production the first year. I wanted to focus on root establishing and main stem strength. They grew about 7ft in about 4 months.
I decided to purchase 2 Catwaba red grapevine rootstock. Planted 1 at my home in zone 10b and 1 at my aunt's zone 9a. Good news is grapes can adjust to any type of soil and need very little fertilizer. I couldn't believe how fast it took off. I found a vinyl arbor trellis that I got a steal on that was sitting in a garage. It has already reached the top of the trellis. It loves the right companions! I had a few volunteer Sunflowers now i have Armenian cucumbers growing next to them. The package said it would take 3 years to get them. An experienced botanist told me it would only take 1 year 😊
There is no freaking thing as "THESE ONES." "These" is already plural. This one. That one, or these, or those. And you were doing so well for a Millennial.
