Hackney Permaculture

When we first cleared back some of the undergrowth in the back garden we discovered an old grapevine stump that looked like it was dead. To our delight it started to sprout a tonne of leaves a few months back so todays job was to start training it up a trellis into a fan.

There is some good advice here – http://www.realenglishfruit.co.uk/content/treetraining.htm

Grapevine at the start of day

Grapevine after haircut - we cut it back to just two leaders

Grapevine with leaders tied to trellis ready to grow into a fan

I miss my grapevines so much. In my old house in the city I had them as a screen across the front porch so they blocked out the traffic. I don’t know if grapes would grow where I am now.

Comment by aimee August 30, 2009 @ 4:00 pm

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