Grapevine Trellis Pictures Recipe

How to make it

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• First picture shows an end post with brace and anti-tilt tensioning wire running on the diagonal. If you look close you can see the little piece of lumber used to twist the tensioning wire. Don’t know why it is so hard to see but it is there.
• Second picture shows all three end posts and rows. You can see the drip irrigation running down the rows and on the ground. The irrigation lines on the ground still need to be covered up with some dirt for freeze protection.
• Next picture is looking down the rows. You can see the individual wire tensioning devices.
• Next is a picture looking across the rows. The drip irrigation can be plainly seen as well as the grapevine training rods and trellis wires.
• Next picture is a down the row shot with new grapevines that have just enough new growth to snap the picture. All the surrounding grass is grown up. Both lawn mowers are in the shop but it's been raining so much I'd bog down trying to get the greenery cut. House in the background is the neighbors'. The dark streak of grass is approx the boundary.
• Next picture is an across row of the new vines showing their leaves. These last two pictures are a little large. I forgot to use the photoshop to cut them down for manageability.
• Next picture is mothers' original grapevines I put up on a trellis wire. It is what got this whole project started. In the foreground I have dug up two dead vines and their posts because they were too short. Too wet to work today. Again the grass is grown up because of rain and broken mowers. Tractor is my John Deere.
• Next picture is part of the extra vines I have potted and am looking for a new home. Cat is not supposed to be in the picture He is waiting for me to open the door. Walkway is a concrete project I put in a few years ago. And you see an elevated herb garden area that is run-over.
• Picture number 8 is about a week after I put down a herbicide. Did two rows and decided to wait to see how many grapevines I killed. Looks like a pretty good job. I'm considering leaving the grass strip down the middle of the in-between-rows area. It looks nice!
• Pic # 9 is an across row look. Vines are growing right on up. I'll get the third row sprayed as soon as the sun decides to shine a full day.
• Pics # 10, 11, & 12 have the vines growing up and over the 5 foot training wires. I will prune off the longer vines just past the 5 foot training wire to promote lateral growth. Pic 10 shows the closest vine in the pic tied toward us and the next vine to the right away from us. All vines get tied alternated that way to get double density in the vine rows.
• A few new pics at the start of this 3rd year showing very early grape flowers.