How to Get More Grapes？

Please share some interesting things about grape planting~

Agrow Jones wrote:Please share some interesting things about grape planting~

We use the hydroseeder, to do a liquid spray of calcium/phosphorous with a tiny bit of wood ash plus the 80 or so trace minerals (formulated from kelp, azomite, magnesium sulfate, DE, greensand, humate, borax, worm castings, and a bunch of other stuff) on everything.  My husband was an international organic/biodynamic ag consultant and this is his proprietary formula trace mineral mix.  Grapes are heavy feeders and they need the minerals, and a lot of compost and a good leaf mulch to produce abundant fruit.  Also prune them back to three main runners and they will put on new growth in spring with the fruiting buds all over it.  Full or almost full sun helps fruiting.  Don’t ever let them dry out, and the mulch helps a lot with that plus rots down into good organic matter with more minerals.   Adequate minerals will also make the insects that feed on plants disappear, as well as most plant pathogens.  Make sure it is pruned enough to get good ventilation and you won’t get blight or fungal growth.    We plant at least 8 to 12 feet apart, with compost and minerals mixed into the hole and mixed with the native dirt.  I throw in some rotted leaves too, helps hold moisture.  They can start bearing as young as one year or two years old with abundant nutrient added to the soil and it also makes them taste incredible.  A definitely superior product with more nutrient density for anyone consuming them.   Place them on well drained soil, hillsides are good if terraced.  

Picture shown is Fox grapes which are great for jelly making, but too tart to eat out of hand.   We also have Concords, treat them the same way.  We got over 20 quarts of juice from this one vine.  I cut it down last year because it was growing up into the Nanking cherry, but it grew back vigorously.  We were spraying the cherry tree, not intending to do the grape vine and were nicely surprised.  Lately we put three Concord outside the cattle panel trellis we use as a rotated chicken run.  Will be so easy to pick.  We grow pole beans the same way.  Hubby is 80 and I’m getting there too, so trying to make life simpler as we grow even older.  Can’t do what we used to.