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["loneroc" <loneroc@mwt.net>]

The vigorous tree climbing grapes that I saw when I lived in northern
Minnesota seemed to do their best to grow on the outside of the tree canopy.
I think that sunlight would only lack until the vines had achieved enough
height.

Steve H.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 2:20 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Grapes on trees


>     Rivka from Finger Lakes, N.Y. wrote:  "I think the climates in which
> grapes are often grown mixed in with trees
> are further south. In Massachusetts, I'd plant them well away from the
> trees; I think they're going to need all the sun they can get. Grapes
> growing even in corners of vineyards near trees in my area often don't
> ripen as well as those further from the woods."
>     I don't know how it is in Massachusetts but, here in Northern
Minnesota,
> grapes do quite well climbing on trees.  In fact, I observe them doing
> equally well as those I have trellised.  There seems (to me) to be an
> evolutionary trend that those plants that possess large leaves have the
> ability to thrive under the shade of smaller-leaved plants - squash
growing
> in a corn field is an obvious example - grapes too, I think.
>
> Jim Fruth
> Pequot Lakes, MN
>
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