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I needed to relocate my grapes and need advice

 
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Hello. I have a very small yard/patio. I had beautiful wooden pergola with 2 grape vines (in planters)
I had to remove the wooden pergola because of reasons not in my control. At first I wanted to give someone else the grapes, but I really love them. Can you please recomand arbor/trellis that will work in a small space? Thank you.
 
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Maybe put a trellis on the side of your house?

When we had our homestead we did not trellis our grapes.  They were in a bed at the end of my house.
 
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If they're in a pot, I've heard of grapes pruned so they grow in a spiral and don't need a trellis at all, you just keep the whole grape pruned back so they're really compact. This is useful in a colder climate as you can put the pots in or outdoors depending on the season.
An alternative that looks possible is to use a post an wire construction. I saw Steve's video here on this and it looks like as long as you can anchor the wire and get hold of some posts you could make an overhead pergola fairly easily.
 
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The spiral pruning idea is one I hadn't come across before, interesting approach. For a small patio I'd lean toward overhead wires between two posts though, grapes grow up and out of the way and you get some nice shade in summer as a bonus.
 
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If you do want to build a trellis, rather than go with Nancy's spiral pruning idea, this thread has lots of really nice designs to be inspired by.
 
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Joao Winckler wrote:The spiral pruning idea is one I hadn't come across before, interesting approach.


I think it is a method favoured by Bob Flowerdew - means he can fit lots of different varieties in a small space and (as I said) move them in and out of the greenhouse as they are in pots.
 
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