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[Bob Randall <YearRoundGardening@comcast.net>]

I’m not commercial and am dubious this would work if you are dealing with any 
large number of grape vines for exactly the reason you say.  

Permaculture Stacking has its main advantage as a way to get more than one 
use out of the same space.  It is just one technique.  If it increased labor 
significantly, that would trade off against the multiple use goal.  Vertical 
stacking (and in this case temporal stacking) makes use of the fact that 
grapes and blackberries on the Gulf Coast have different fruiting times (May 
and August), different light needs, and can be fruited at different heights.

I put them at a height I can maintain on a very sturdy wide stepped "step 
stool".  I am 5’9”. I think that part would work no matter what one’s height.

It turns out I don’t have any really good photos.  The attached is the best I 
could find.

You probably could get a better idea of this in the online video about my 
urban activity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDuM2P1E-Q&sns=em


Bob


"Share What You Grow and What You Know!"

Bob Randall, Ph.D.








> On Apr 20, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Road's End Farm <organic87@frontiernet.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> I'm curious. Is all the work on the grapes done by machinery? If not, isn't 
> making nearly everything done by hand into ladder work a significant 
> disadvantage?
> 
> -- Rivka; not much over 5' tall
> Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
> Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
> 
> 
> On Apr 20, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Bob Randall wrote:
> 
>> I have had excellent results in southeast Texas stacking grapes—both 
>> muscadines and Euro-American hybrid bunch grapes on 8-10 ft trellis wires
> 
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