This is what the grapes ought to look like in late April. They're not at this stage of development yet. It's supposed to turn chilly again next week. I hope we don't have a freeze the way we do in some years. Grapes bloom when they want to. The vineyard is not like a vegetable garden, where you can wait until later (mid-May here) to set plants out to avoid springtime freezes.
I hope you don't have a freeze. Thanks for the photos of grape development. We had a concord grape vine in our yard on a trellis, but I didn't pay much attention to it. My mother didn't like making grape jelly so the vine was cut down after a couple of years. The skin was inedible and the seeds were large, but the meat was sweet and good.
ReplyDeleteI make jelly out of the wild plums that grow on my tree. They aren't free-stone so it's hard to pit them. They make good jelly though because I can just cook them pits and all, and then strain the juice through a dish towel.
DeleteOh, I guess I didn't ever think about there being a specific time when you have to plant grapes, or that they always come up and start developing at a certain time.
ReplyDeleteThe grape vines get re-planted every 20 or 25 years. Otherwise they are perennials. They die back to woody trunks over the winter and new growth, including leaves, flowers, and then fruit, appears in the spring. Hopefully, not too early in the spring.
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