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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat@containerseeds.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grape Arbor
  • Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 16:12:45 -0400

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:34:53 +0000, you wrote:

>I never quite understood how removal of leaves would help grapes to ripen,
>wine grapes or otherwise. Isn't it leaves which produce the carbohydrates
>which cause the fruit to ripen? So doesn't the vine want all the
>leaves-per-cluster possible?
>
>tc, s.WI, might harvest more grapes if area had fewer raccoons
>

Maybe you could switch to harvesting raccoons! Raccoon
stew, anyone?

Pat (sorry, couldn't help myself.....)
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