In my ponderings over my garden plans this spring, I've decided I'd like to grow a bit of fruit. My issue is that I have a small area to work with and most of the plantings I have in the front garden will be potted. I would love to plant a small grapevine, however I need advice.
My first thought took me back to when I was a child growing up on our farm. Our grape trellis was lovely, but large, and if the grapevine I was to plant did as well as the one we had in our orchard, it would resemble more the Sci-Fi movie "The Day Of The Triffids" than a quaint little cottage grapevine in our front garden.
Have any of you grown grapes in large pots? Is there a certain dwarf variety I should seek out that would fare well for a small area? I have read that container grown grapes do well as long as you provide a trellis of some sort. How large a trellis does one need for a container grown grape?
Are there any grape experts out there in blogland? Please do grace me with your knowledge!
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My apologies, because how to puck and relish the harvest is all I know of grapevines! I do keep tales from Gemmama (<~~whose flowers-plus garden is forever lovely, and seems magically to be in charge of itself~~> Please read about her grapevine dancing its own Hokey-Pokey to turn itself about: "A Room with a View, Please".), which insist garden tools have feelings and wills that belonged to them.
"If a tool is treated well, it will make the gardening easy for you, and even help out without an asking put to it," my grandmother's advice reminds. "But if you neglect, or mistreat, or otherwise step on a garden tool's toes, it might get angry--even turn on you!" (Later on, after a calm-down, she would give clarity: "Well, maybe not turn on you... But disgruntled tools have been known to become sullen, slow the workers.")
Once per year, Gemmama polishes the pointies and blades of her garden tools with a magnet (facing North, of course~~> The Because: when the tools row up with the Earth, the work will easier flow.) and, then, olive oil for good luckiness. Afterwhich, they are left a while that is short in the Sun.
Best wishes on this, your fruitful endeavor!
Cellar Door
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