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[Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hi Doreen,

I have lost my Vanessa due to low winter temps.  Dies off to the ground.  Being from Massachusetts, I can say our winters here are the same as yours.

Dou you want to invest 4 years in a vine, to have an oddly cold winter kill it off?

Later,
Tom

Doreen Howard wrote:

Lon and I have been discussing what seedless grapes I should plant in my new paradise 75 miles west of Chicago near the Wisconsin border.  He tells me that some of my choices may have disease problems here.  But......don't take this personally Lon...he grows his grapes in a different climate than I do.  So, Zone 5a and 4b Midwest grape growers, I need your opinions.  How will the following seedless grapes do here: InterlakenVanessaGlenoraMars My area hits -20F one out of five winters, and annual rainfall is about 30 inches.  Late summers are typically hot and very dry.  I'm an organic gardener and have beautiful loam soil.  I'll be planting the grapes facing south on a slope.  Air movement is brisk.Doreen Howard 

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Thomas Olenio
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