Backyard Farming the Natural Way

I just wanted to post an update picture of the muscadines growing along my newly erected trellis. You can see that in a little over a month (since my first post on the trellis), that these cordons have grown a few more feet and are now within just a couple of feet from reaching the trellis posts. When they reach these posts which are 20′ apart, I will pinch off the ends to restrict the muscadines to this expanse and encourage more lateral growth along the cordons.

Out of the six grape vines I now have, a couple had a few problems resulting in a loss of some growth. On one, I had put a little too much fertilizer which killed some of the newer growth. Be very careful to not place the fertilizer too close to the base of these plants, as they are very sensitive.  At the rate these are going, I am expecting a partial crop this coming summer. Not bad for 8 months since starting as bare root whips!