We are in a January thaw, with no more extreme weather expected, so I thought today would be a good day to head into the back yard and prune the Bluebell and Swenson Seedless grape vines.
The first photo is not a grape vines. Neither is this one.
Nor this one. All but one of the grafts I did last summer, have been eaten. The little bastards. I can probably save the rootstocks and graft onto them again this year, but I just lost a year on the trees. We have never had rabbits bother things in our yard before. We have apples, cherries and currants. None of them were ever touched when young. This last winter, that was not the case.
This is the Bluebell grape vine, with it about half done for the spur pruning.
Just another shot of the vine, pruned and ready for summer.
That is the two Swenson Seedless, which are kind of hard to see, now that they are pruned and not just a tangled mess.
This is what I removed from the two Swenson grape vines.
I went through all of the prunings, tossing all the winter injured pieces, and making cuttings to root for new vines this next summer.
I ended up with about 150 pieces. Not too bad for just two vines. I did not get into the Bluebell vine prunings yet. That will be tomorrow. When I am done with it all, I will pack them in 2 gallon Zip Loc bags with moist peat moss, and just put them in the crisper of the fridge until things warm up. Then they will go into the ground, and/or pots, to root.
That took my morning and early part of the afternoon. We are going to head up to the Adickes farm to talk about gardening and have a sausage and red sauce dinner.
