I had some grape plants which were grown from seed. I didn’t want to go to all the trouble of posts and wire so came up with this simple arch:
The original post about it is here.
Here’s a view of the pipe in the ground showing how the larger pipe arch fits in:
The larger pipe is really heavy duty 25 mm plastic and Bunnings sell them in pre-cut 3 metre lengths.
The Concord grape at the left hand end has grown well:
The one at the other end is slower:
The Concord has reached the halfway point and I was rapt to see this:
And this:
Flower buds! Yay!
November 27, 2013 at 4:37 pm |
Great stuff. Well done!
That gives me an idea. I will blog if it gets anywhere.
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November 28, 2013 at 3:55 am |
Yummo…grapes! Now you just have to stop every critter this side of the Pecos from pinching them before you get them ;). I have lots of cuttings that I took from the muscat grape vine that I planted at our old house that struck earlier this year and so I have grapes to plant out myself…better find a place for them and I am going to use your trellis idea as well…excellent share Bev, cheers for the inspiration š
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November 28, 2013 at 11:08 am |
Yay! I hope your grapes are tasty. I assume they are table grapes of course. I like the arch technique! I thinks I will be trying something similar next time I need to net a tree.
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November 28, 2013 at 8:21 pm |
Very nice arch, and great to see tiny bunches on your vines. I have had my four grape vines in for 2 years, and they are about 1 metre tall. Hopefully they will grow a lot stronger like yours have.
Gav
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