So now is the point when the vine has to be chopped down.
All that is left now is a stump. The stump will try to push shoots in the spring so they will still have to be dealt with.
Monday 29 October 2012
Brant - The End Of The Line
Because a blackbird found a way under the net that was protecting the Brant grapes I'm left with no grapes as it has eaten them all.
So now is the point when the vine has to be chopped down.
All that is left now is a stump. The stump will try to push shoots in the spring so they will still have to be dealt with.
So now is the point when the vine has to be chopped down.
All that is left now is a stump. The stump will try to push shoots in the spring so they will still have to be dealt with.
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Why are you getting rid of it? Because it doesn't fruit well?
ReplyDeleteBrant has never really been used for wine or table grapes in a serious way. It is far too unproductive and generally of mediocre quality and size, it's just ornamental really.
It is probably pure Vitis labrusca which as a species in my mind is worse than most French and German Vitis vinifera varieties in our climate.
American summers are just hotter, few areas of America are as maritime influenced as Western Europe. The Pacific NW and Alaska Panhandle approach it, but the Americans breed labrusca-based grapes for continental conditions - warm summers, cold winters.