|
Home > Archive > UK gardening > September 2005 > Harvesting grapes
You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread.
To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to
this thread please [click here]
|
|
| FurryWurry 2005-09-24, 6:21 pm |
| I have a grape vine at the front of my house. I harvested about half the red
grapes recently but still think there's some mileage in leaving them a few
weeks to sweeten up.
What do people think? I live in the South East England and the soil is nice
and chalky so the vine grows well. Would they become sweeter or grow?
| |
| Jupiter 2005-09-24, 6:21 pm |
| On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:19:46 GMT, "FurryWurry" <spam@nospam.com>
wrote:
>I have a grape vine at the front of my house. I harvested about half the red
>grapes recently but still think there's some mileage in leaving them a few
>weeks to sweeten up.
>
>What do people think? I live in the South East England and the soil is nice
>and chalky so the vine grows well. Would they become sweeter or grow?
>
Frost won't do them any good. Here in Hertfodshire we're getting
lovely warm sunny days but Thursday night temperature was down to 38F.
Given the late May frosts we had this year and the current dry clear
weather I wouldn't be surprised at sneaky early frosts. That said,
you've nothing to lose really by leaving the grapes to grow. I'm
keeping fingers crossed about the top trusses on outdoor tomatoes,
runner beans still running hard and Dahlias flowering strongly. A
good night frost could do for the lot of course....
| |
| David Rance 2005-09-25, 6:21 am |
| On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 Jupiter wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:19:46 GMT, "FurryWurry" <spam@nospam.com>
>wrote:
>
>Frost won't do them any good. Here in Hertfodshire we're getting
>lovely warm sunny days but Thursday night temperature was down to 38F.
>Given the late May frosts we had this year and the current dry clear
>weather I wouldn't be surprised at sneaky early frosts. That said,
>you've nothing to lose really by leaving the grapes to grow. I'm
>keeping fingers crossed about the top trusses on outdoor tomatoes,
>runner beans still running hard and Dahlias flowering strongly. A
>good night frost could do for the lot of course....
>
Light frost is not likely to affect the vines against a house. My advice
would be to leave them as long as possible as they will get sweeter by
the day. Check them frequently though as your biggest problem is likely
to be grey rot.
David
--
David Rance david.rance@rance.org.uk http://www.mesnil.demon.co.uk
Fido Address: 2:252/110 writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
| |
|
|
"David Rance" <david.rance@SPAMOFFrance.org.uk> wrote in message
news:YNWM15AbPmNDFwdY@mesnil.demon.co.uk...[color=darkred]
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 Jupiter wrote:
I'll be leaving mine out until sometime in October. They are against a south
facing
wall, and I don't anticipate any frost until november, at least that close
to a wall.
I am in the SW so that helps.
Andy.
|
|
|
|
|