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  • From: "Joe Boles" <jo.bo@rogers.com>
  • To: "Ontario Fruit Explorers" <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [OFEX] Grape Vines
  • Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:19:14 -0400

Tom:

I read somewhere that in places in northern Europe where grapes are not hardy that they dig around the base of the vine so that they can bend the roots and lay the vine on the ground and cover it with soil. I understood that whole vineyards are done this way.

Joe



----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
To: <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 3:35 PM
Subject: [OFEX] Grape Vines



Hello All,

I have an Isabella grape that is supposed to be hardy to my zone.
However, each year it dies to the ground and puts out new main vines each
season. I will never see fruit unless I do something.

Would I be better off to dig it up and put in an unheated garage, or wrap
it in burlap leaving it outdoors.

I must be in a colder micro-climate. It is a river valley with poor air
drainage.

I also wonder about those polyethylene foam pipe insulators. They come in
different diameters, and could slipped onto the vine, then sealed with
duct tape.

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http://www.nmc.be/iso/bilder_UK/sanflex.gif

I would not be able to bury the vine, as my wife would bury me for digging
up the lawn. (smile)

Any ideas or opinions? Opinion on the vine Bert, not my wife putting me
in the hole (ha, ha, ha)

I am going to saddle Bert with an air-layered Isabella when we get to our
Harrow tour in a couple of weeks. That is when Helga will bean him. (LOL)

Later,
Tom
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