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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

It might also be that the rampant growth signifies areas of the best
soil, highest nutrients, lack of hardpan, or something else that is
benefiting both the grapes and the weeds.

For what it's worth, I have 'lost' several newly planted grapevines in
annual weeds, quackgrass, and smooth brome, and even after not being
able to find the *#&! things for 2 years in a row, up they come like
champions, growing to the top wire in the 3rd year. They must just be
in there somewhere, working on their root growth. Never killed a grape
seedling yet.

-matt demmon
z5 se MI

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:35 AM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
> After nearly 2 months of nonstop rain I'm weeks behind on getting the
> new vineyard installation under control.  Giant ragweed is 6-8 feet
> high in some places, rye grass is 5 feet high & lambs quarters is so
> tall & woody that my string mower won't bring it down.  My one
> observation is that hands down the healthiest, largest & tallest vines
> are the ones that are the most buried by surrounding plants.  The
> vines that are in the open with little or no competition are sometimes
> a third the size & suffering the most from chlorosis.  The tall growth
> is working as a nurse crop encouraging the vines to go upward,
> protecting them from the winds & extreme sun & also buffering the huge
> amounts of rain we've had (22 inches since June 1, the average in the
> time span is around 11 inches).  Certainly not very practical
> information & something I would ever recommend, but also I must say
> that I worried far too much that I was losing vines because I didn't
> have the mowing under control & that is definitely not the case.
>
> ~mIEKAL
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