Growing New Grapevines From Pruned Cuttings

New grapevines can be propagated from the cuttings pruned from your grapevines.  Since grapevines must be pruned every year, this gives you the opportunity to plant more and more grapevines every year without going out and spending hard earned money for more.  We like free.

You will want to plan your pruning with the plan of planting your cuttings.  The cuttings must be planted in the same direction they are growing, that is the end of the cutting that is closest to the base of the vine needs to go in the ground.  An easy way to keep track of which end is which is to cut the bottom of the cutting straight across, and the top of the cutting trimmed at an angle.  This way you can always tell which end of the cutting goes in the ground.

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Garden Fence/Grapevine Trellis

Being on only one acre of land, we are always looking for ways to maximize the usage of our space.  As we were needing a new fence around our expanded garden, we had a revelation that we could also use this as a trellis for our grapevines.

During the first year of our garden, we needed a fence to keep our family dog from digging up our plants.  She is wonderful dog. A little hyper and friendly as can be, but she loves to dig.

We made a trip to Lowe’s. Luckily its only a 10 minute drive since we seem to go there quite a lot.  We had the measurements of our garden but were unsure of just what type of fencing we were going to use.  After much discussion we settled on rabbit wire. Smaller holes on the bottom to keep out small critters and it also happened to be the cheapest.  We purchased some of the little green metal posts to support the fence.

The idea of this fence worked perfectly.  It went up fast, kept the dog out, and was easily moved when we expanded our garden for this coming season.

The Arbor with the first year grapevines.

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Pecan Stick Arrival

The Nursery at TyTy ships fast.  One of our orders arrived today.

  • Desirable Pecan Tree – 1-2 feet tall
  • Pawnee Pecan Tree – 1-2 feet tall
  • Brightwell Blueberry Plant – 2-3 feet tall
  • Climax Blueberry Plant – 2-3 feet tall
  • Ladyfinger Seedless Grape Vine – 2 yr
  • Red Flame Seedless Grape Vine – 2 yr

Jon works all kinds of weird days and a lot of weekends and was luckily off today so he could plant them.  This is how they arrived. Ummmm, ok.  Looks like a mangled mess of sticks to me.

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