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To: Viking2002

I too am in the south, around Wilmington. 4 of 5 blueberry bushes are covered in berries. 1 of 3 peach trees produced about 80 peaches. This is year 3 for 6 grapevines and they have quite a few grapes this year. Trying Chayote soon. I need a bigger yard.


31 posted on 05/28/2019 10:51:37 AM PDT by killermosquito (Buffalo, Detroit (and eventually France) is what you get when liberalism runs its course.)
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I’ve got a trellis of Niagara, Catawba, and Concord grapes going outside; tomorrow I’m taking a look see. The one I dug up from the old house in ‘12 to root is about 8’ or 9’ long now; I ordered several varieties from the Nursery from Hell in Bloomington, Indiana and it took them all summer to send me live bare root vines. I also have a replacement vine (Niagara? Catawba?) that’s thriving in a pot in the sun room with a dwarf Key lime, dwarf Meyer Lemon, and dwarf Cleopatra clementine in pots next to it. All four (and a vase of bamboo) seem to like the sunlight they’re getting; the Key lime actually started to fruit last year before the cats knocked them off jockeying for windowsill space. The place where I put the salvaged trellis doesn’t get a lot of sun; I may have to take it out; relocate it, then dig deep and hope the grape vines can withstand the root shock. Might have to soak them in a bucket of water for a day or so, until they stabilize a bit. If I run out of options, I may just trellis a couple varieties of muscadines (The Grape of The South).We found one little shoot of black muscadines when we bought the old house; within ten years, it took over a 9’ trellis and the front porch, and we couldn’t eat or preserve them fast enough. I think every species of bird south of Atlanta was nesting in that knot of vines; Mama bird didn’t have to go far to feed the chicks. She just leaned over the edge of the nest and plucked lunch. LOL


37 posted on 05/28/2019 5:17:55 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Free James Woods!!!)
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