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I got my handle from my hobby of trapping beaver. Trees are no more than woody weeds. Yes, I can cut the tree down, I can girdle it, but that won't kill a mulberry! I'm looking for a way to treat it after it is cut, that won't transfer to my grapes. It is close enough that it has roots...

I have a problem that just gets worse every year. There is a mulberry tree just on the other side of my property line that the landowner said it is fine with him to take out. The problem is, I don't want to kill my grapes useing toradon to kill the tree. I killed some brush in the area close...

The only thing good about deer or wabbits is that they taste good! Just ask Elmer Fudd!:h

Dell ask me when I wanted mine, and I said the last safe freeze date here is the 20th of May, and he said that he'd send them around the eighth of May. He did, and I mudded them in the next day. I should have put grow tubes on them to start with, but I didn't think the rabbits would bother...

I went ahead and put grow tubes on everything this evening. Killed two bunnys, but there is always ten times as many as you think, so keeping them out is easier! Masbustelo, did you get one year old or two year old vines? I got one yr old, but had really nice roots. We'll see what the next...

I about blew a gasket tonight! Went down to see how they were doing this evening, and about six plants had the leaves ate off. Open season on rabbits, got one this evening, more will die! When I mowed, I seen where one had chewed on an apple tree that I had grown from seed, and grafted a gala...

Mine have been in the ground for abouttwo weeks, and have all stirred to life. We have had alot of rain, and cloudy, cool weather, so growing conditions haven't been the best here. Yours are ahead of mine, by quite a bit at this point!

I've been using Liberty, and like the results. Seems to kill the junk much quicker and faster than roundup ever did. The drawback was that I had to buy 2 1/2 gal jug, which should last me the rest of my life!:h

All I get here is rain. Vines call for an inch a week, we been getting two inches a day here lately!

Thats spot on about the air moving down a slope. I had a cold night, and my nortons were planted above my frontenacs, and no sign of damage on the higher ground, even next to the ground, but not the same with the frontenacs. Not much up on the trellis but everything in the grow tubes was...

Well, my back hurts! I just got my verona in the ground, and it was a pita. We have been getting rain right along, and the ground was just sticky goo, but I got them mudded in! Would have hated to have had to plant fifty, I ordered 25, and Dell Schott at Bevins Creek Nursury sent another...

I've never fertilized much in the past. The week before bud break, we went into a monsoon period, and I was planning to fertilize at least some of my vines. It finially dried up, but I have a lot of growth now, and am scared to apply it now. Do I just need to chill and wait till after they go...

That's all mine is too, but it just keeps getting bigger every year!:ft. I don't know how to lessen my addiction! I should be getting 25 verona vines in the mail in the next few days. They were to be shipped today.:db

I had a hard freeze about ten years ago that really fried my concord vines. At that time, I didn't have more than about twenty vines, and I thought when I saw them, I would be replanting the whole works! About a week and one half later, they all budded back out, and went ahead and produced a...

I've never had to use any sprays on my nortons. I live on a windy hill, and have never had an issue with any of the grape diseases. I planted the first nortons over eight years ago, and credit the airflow for the health of the vines. If the wind doesn't blow in Ks, it sucks!::

I got one of those a little over a week ago. The cold slid down the draw, and just nipped a few leaves on my frontenac, which were the lowest vines, but burned the dickens out of some that were planted last fall and were in grow tubes. The vines that were on higher ground had no damage! I...

Now the work begins! It is a labor of love though! Good luck with your new vines.:h

I've had my grapes marked up like that after a hailstorm several times. If it gets very big, it will knock the berries off, but small hail will make them look like that.

Just had bud burst here this week.:h. It was so warm this spring, I was scared to death that we would have another freeze, and the vines would already be going, but it was all for naught! I guess it could still happen, but nothing in the forecast. I've seen it happen before!

After several different tries at coming up with a stake to train on, I setteled on 3/8 inch rebar. It comes in twenty foot lengths, and divide into thirds and cut in a hot saw, presto, a stake long enough to stick in the ground and reach the top wire. I may be biased, as I've been a welder all...