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  • From: "Doreen Howard" <gardendiva@charter.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] grape cultivars
  • Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:52:14 -0500

Ginda Fisher wrote:

There's no practical way to fence anything on my property, but this grape vine is growing on an ornamental archway, and fencing it would make it impossible to pass from one area of the yard to another, not to mention looking really weird. Even if I did fence it, the vine is close enough to some nearby oaks that the squirrels can certainly jump to it.

I had a similar problem with my grapes, even though they are on the three-wire systems within a fenced veggie garden. Critters are persistent. After losing all my grapes last year to these pests, I did what my Grandfather did in the 1940's. I wrapped each cluster in a wax paper sandwich bag when they began to put on size. I secured the top of each bag at the stem with a clothes pin. It worked! I've been harvesting grapes galore, and they are plenty sweet.
Doreen Howard
Zone 4b-5a, WI-IL Border







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