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  • From: "bert dunn" <helbert@idirect.com>
  • To: "Ontario Fruit Explorers" <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [OFEX] Grape Vines
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:33:01 -0400

Hi Tom
please see comments below by ****
Bert Dunn Box 352 Schomberg Ont L0G 1T0 Zone 4b

www.hardygrapes.tottenham.on.ca
www.littlefatwino.com/bertslist.html
Think Blending-Not Varietals


From: "Thomas Olenio" <tolenio@sentex.net>
To: "Ontario Fruit Explorers" <labruscagrape@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 9:38 AM
> Hi,
> I have heard of this too. You cut the roots on one side, lay down the
> vine, turning the rootball, so not to snap the vine, and cover with white
> plastic, or soil.
>
> In the spring the plant is better off because when uprighted half of it's
> roots still run deep.*****when I was younger and more foolish I buried my
figs as above. The problem was in the spring ,when uncovered they were quite
moldy. Did not repeat the burial thus cannot say if my mold was a one off.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 09:19:14 -0400, Joe Boles <jo.bo@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> >> 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)*****Tom, if I get in trouble with 'she who knows best' I may have
to move in with you
> >>
> >> Later,
> >> Tom







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