I’d plant grape seeds.
What type of grapes do you want? Eating grapes or wine grapes?
Have you looked at seed catalogs? Do you want purple or white grapes? Are these for eating or just a foliage planting? What is your planting zone? So many unknowns to your question.
Go to the nearest commercial farm supply company and buy both red and green seedless grape seeds.
Make sure you ask for seedless grapes only.
Talk with your local USDA agent. He will have a good idea and will put you in touch with the local wine grape grower’s group.
A fun bunch of people.
How about the grapes of wrath?
Where do you live? I know muscadines and scuppernongs do great down South. They have thicker skins so the bugs and critters don’t mess with them as much (A family friend has some and they are doing great.) The thinner skinned grapes that you often get at the grocery store may or may not do well, depending on where you live. Being more delicate and all, the bugs and critters really like to just eat them up. At least that’s what they did to ours. I want to plant muscadines and scuppernongs this year. I think they may do better for the area where I live (VA).
What is the best grape tu plant?
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Ask your neighborhood birds what they like best. After all - they will be eating them.
Grape any kin to Old Brush??
Hops.
My suggestion, if you want wine grapes is to find out what grapes are being raised by the wineries in your area.
We have a 60 year old bullis vine (dark, fruited muscadine) that makes wonderful jams and even better wine. Once established, they require no watering even in hot, humid South Alabama and it grows like a weed.
I’m overrun with wild grapes. Guess I should expect that living along the Raisin river.
Talk to your County Agricultural Extension Agent (or equivalent).
Amy Grant
Grape, Grape Joy Lyrics
I am a small and lonely grape,
Clutching to the vine,
Waiting for the day when I’ll become my Savior’s wine!
Oh, wouldn’t French cuisine just yearn it,
I’ve eternity to ferment,
But knowing me I’d end up ripple
In a cellar of cheblis.
Are you a small and lonely grape
Clutching to the vine,
Waiting for the day when you’ll become your Savior’s wine?
Don’t give up hope ye heavy laden,
You don’t want to be a raisin;
There’s a grape grape joy in Jesus,
In the vineyard of the Lord.
Too bad you live too far north for a nice crop of Kudzu.
Too bad you’re not in the South. I’d recommend my personal favorite, muscadine.
Try planting some hops.
My parents had a Concord Grape Arbor when us kids were growing up - great jellies & jams, excellent off the vine snacking too.
You’ll get a bunch of bees, especially in the fall if you don’t get the grapes all cut off. If you go Concord Grape, get ready to make a bunch of jams or give grapes away to friends.
(I used to call it the Grape Barber - that’s what I thought everyone was saying....:)