Muscadine Grapes
Purple Muscadine Grapes is about 4 years old. This year my husband built me another arbor fence for it. I am going to do my best to take better care of it now that I have the new sturdy support that I didn’t have before. I think he did a great job on it. I designed it myself in hopes of having more grapes this year. Past years it would have many grapes but before they could mature, the birds and bugs (aphids ? I think) would devour them all. I got this grapevine from my favorite brother n law. It has really did well every year considering that getting no more than a handful every year.
Muscadine Grapevine is at far right.picture here taken 04/29/2009
Take a look at the bug Page link (aphids) I think thats whats on this grapevine. I sprayed them today whatever kind of bug they may be. I always have such a problem out of these bugs every year. In the past I have given up on killing them. This year I’m hoping I can do a better job at keeping these off this year.
Picture taken 04/29/2009
This picture has my favorite bug on the grapevine in it taken by mistake. I just wish I had more of this type of bug. Check out my bug page/favorite bug. HINT: every gardener likes this kind of bug.
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May 29th 2009
This picture isn’t the greatest but it lets you see just how much it has grown in a months time. I feel like it would grow much better if it was more in the sun.
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This picture you can tell that I haven’t been feeding it or watering my grapevine as I should have. When Spider season starts (Banana Spiders) Most of my outdoor activity comes to a halt. They are many all around in Florida.
This spider was hanging close by. Yikes!
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Replanting my Grapevine 1/21/11
Today I pruned back my grapevine. While in the process doing this and it being my first time. I was checking around the root system. I had that morning read some useful info on a website that instructed me how to prune and care for a grapevine. Info read to have only one trunk (base of plant) to grapevine. While looking at the base of my grapevine. I became very confuse. By the looks of mine I could see at least three of four trunks. I had questions to what was wrong with it. This lead me as to find the problem to why mine had so many trunks. So at the base of the plant I was feeling around the base of my grapevine. I could feel many roots and vines that were all wrapped around each other (root bound) in the ground. The soil was very dry. I wound up digging the grapevine up and separating it. To my surprise I had 3 grapevines growing all together. I replanted the best grapevine out of the all three vines. I am hoping this will help it and not kill it. I will be posting a update in the spring. Until then I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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Trish Stansell
August 31st, 2011 at 17:29
We live in Panama City Fl And are haveing the worst time with the birds. Any Ideas whould be great. Thanks
TBerrys
September 2nd, 2011 at 13:40
Thanks for your comment. I used to have the same problem with birds eating all the grapes before they had a chance to mature for my picking. Birds were eating everything. I had a lady friend who had a nice grapevine and no problems with birds as I did. She told me that my grapevine arbor was built to far up off the ground. Birds are more apt to getting your grapes if they were hanging up higher off the ground verses being closer to the ground. I still haven’t lowered my grapevine. One day I stumbled across a wind ornament that birds can’t stand. I am a bird lover and have bird feeders close to my house. One day by mistake I had hung a wind ornament close to my feeders and the birds wouldn’t come near the feeders. This was very unusual. After I figure that hanging the wind ornament was the only thing I had done different at feeding my birds. It dawned on me that I was scaring birds off by mistake. Yet for my grapevine this would be a great way for me to scare birds away from my grapevine. Oh Yes!!! I bought a few more of them to hang around my grapevine. It seems to work well. So far so good at the time. This ornament to as how it works at scaring them I am not sure, but the plastic shiny glass looking wind ornament hangs like a big curly noodle going round and round constantly moving in the wind and a reflection from the sun of many colors. Reflecting like a mirror. This one as described works for me the best of all the other wind moving ornaments. I am not sure if it would work for you but it would be worth a try.
Another trick someone told me is to try laying plastic/rubber snakes around and on top of your grapevine. This I haven’t tried yet. Hope I’ve helped you in some way. Thanks again for your comment and God Bless.
hotshot bald cop
September 2nd, 2011 at 05:53
I never thought of it that way, well put!
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