37 ° F in the shop. Not going to warm the place until later.
This is not good for my figs...............
This is not good for my figs...............
Anyone growing grapes in Zone 5?
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Your spitting out the most beneficial part of the grapes, the skin are anti-inflammatory and high in antioxidants, not to mention the fiber factor.By the way, I found the best way to eat seeded grapes is to take a mouthful, chew them up and after enjoying the pulp, spit out the wad of grape skin and seeds. Seedless grapes can be enjoyed one by one.
Yes, us too when I was growing up in Oregon. We only grew vegetables in our garden, for fruits we went to the U-pick-it places. We grew some fairly giant zucchinis in our garden, they really like the NW soil and climate.
Looks like the grape plants survived the winter! My neighbouring grape expert mentioned that with young grape plants up here, a new shoot will be created and only after a few years will shoots from the buds show up in the spring. Two days ago there was nothing, and today I noticed these little guys.
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Yay!!
My figs all made it. The two hearty varieties proved their worth - the one standard fig was froze to ground level and slowed. But leaves coming.
So far 7 of 21 plants are coming up. Looks like I might have some serious winter kill. The test will be next week when the temp will hit 90 F. It’s been a cold spring.
One of my neighbour’s 20 year old Concord grape plants. The grapes are forming.
The temp here was 100 F. Here is a current sampling of my year two growth. The survival rate kicked up to 14 out of 21, with the latest plant pushing up a shoot two inches away from the stalk from last year.
Here's some pics of my grape plants here in Colorado taken today:
Plant 1:
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Plant 2:
Nice. Those are thick stalks. How old are they?
I can't exactly remember.
Either 2021, or 2022.
These are Einset seedless grapes, and last year we got a very small harvest, I think 3 small little clusters, all from the biggest plant.
They were delicious, but small.
Actually put them in a baggie, and flew them to California where we shared them with my wife's dad, his wife, and her brother.
They just happened to ripen perfectly the day before our flight, and we didn't want to come back a couple days later just to find out that the wasps and yellow jackets got to enjoy them instead of us.
This year, I mixed some 5-7-10 into the soil before the winter ended in March.
Plant 2 is just completely covered with clusters. I'm not sure if that was apparent in the pictures.
I didn't bother taking any pictures of Plant 3, since that one was just planted last year, and it only has 2 small clusters on it.
Either 2021, or 2022.
These are Einset seedless grapes, and last year we got a very small harvest, I think 3 small little clusters, all from the biggest plant.
They were delicious, but small.
Actually put them in a baggie, and flew them to California where we shared them with my wife's dad, his wife, and her brother.
They just happened to ripen perfectly the day before our flight, and we didn't want to come back a couple days later just to find out that the wasps and yellow jackets got to enjoy them instead of us.
This year, I mixed some 5-7-10 into the soil before the winter ended in March.
Plant 2 is just completely covered with clusters. I'm not sure if that was apparent in the pictures.
I didn't bother taking any pictures of Plant 3, since that one was just planted last year, and it only has 2 small clusters on it.
One of the plants reached the wire at 12 inches and grabbed on with a tendril. Very cool how how that works.
Yesterday was pretty much the last warm day for the season. The grape leaves are turning color and we’ll get frost within the month. I can’t say the grape plants got any larger than they did during year one.
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1 - Yeah rains were huge yesterday. Cool. 50°F this AM though
2- Did you feel that quake 4:05AM today?
3 - I finally got figs on one bush, but alas I think they lose the race. Pictures were from 3 weeks ago, so there is hope
We don’t seem to feel quakes over here. There were some 50 mph winds and heavy rain.
Weird thing happened. One of the plants I thought was winter kill sprouted a leaf last week.
The grape plants are done for the season including the newly sprouted one. We got freezing night time conditions this week.
Figs are still growing. Coldest night has been 42 and heckuva storm today. 54°F right now.
Here are the neighbour’s Concords. The leaves are wilted from the frost we just had. He’ll be picking them today.
