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Hey guys so I’m out here in the garden and it still feels like winter even though it is the end of February and we’re coming close to Spring Easter is coming close and everything around me still looks dark and dead and all that and that’s pretty much how it looks
Like for most of our state over here and it can be a little bit depressing I just want to start digging my hands into the dirt and just start gardening and doing all this stuff it’s also super windy and cold today so I hope you guys can hear
Me well so you all are probably just kind of sick of me just sitting down and doing sit down videos and not doing any gardening and you’re all probably like me as well just wanting to see some living things and gardening and all that stuff and I don’t have green right now
But I do have a grape vine and we are going to work on pruning it and I’m going to take you along with me and kind of show you what I’m going to be doing with that grape vine and how you should be pruning it in the coming up years I’m
Also going to be talking about the setup for the grape vine what kind of supports I’m going to be using for it and uh the future plans for it and for this area over here behind me this is the first year for this grape vine over here you
Can barely see it it’s about I I would say about a foot tall and it has three canes coming off of it so this is my first time pruning grape Vines uh I grew up around grp grape Vines my grandfather always had grape Vines around and my grandfather was the guy
That you would call for a pruning job everyone in our town would call him if they had any pruning job whatsoever and I kind of want to start carrying on that Legacy for my grandfather so I want to get really good uh good at pruning so I did a lot of
Reading on how to prune grape Vines and I watched uh professors and Horticultural professors teaching about how to BR grap Vines I watched also uh people who have Orchards or Vineyards sorry not Orchards talking about how they prune their grape Vines and I’ve been doing research on this subject for
Several years because I want to have several grape Vines over here for multiple uses a lot of these people what they suggest is at the time of planting your grape vine to cut it down to about two Buds and or about 6 in above the ground and some others suggest to uh
Leave it the first year don’t do anything just plant it leave it fertilizer and let it grow because these canes are going to develop leaves and those leaves are going to help it photo photosynthesize and help strengthen the root system and I am I fall in that camp
And this is what I did for the first year or or I should say for the for this is what I did the first time I planted it so this is the first year now after planting and now it’s time to prune it so what I’m going to do is I’m going to
Cut it back to the first Bud over here and I’ll try to zoom you guys in so that you can see I think this is a bud over here I can’t tell but I’m going to cut it this is a bud that’s a bud I’m going to cut it right here so I’ll
Do two Buds and then I’ll cut it right here so basically around the same place where it was growing if I bring you closer you’ll see that there is a bud right on this side over here so I could cut it down to this butd over here
And I think this is strong enough of aade and it’s thick enough where I don’t need to worry about cutting it down uh shorter than this because if if I cut it any shorter and there are no buds along this over here what’s going to happen is
All this growth is going to die back until it reaches the first Bud over here so I’m just going to keep it as it is so that it can have the strength to put on some growth this year once you prune back the grape vine you’ll want to
Provide it with with support preferably you’ll want to provide it with support the first year but I did not do that because I just simply ran out of time this year however I’m definitely going to do that and I’m hopefully going to be adding some more grape Vines over here
So the plan is to have a grape vine in each of these beds and we already planted the grape vine over here but I planted it in the middle of the bed and I’m thinking that I’m going to be planting it at the edge of this bed over
Here so that I can train the branches to go over that way and also the other grape vine would be in the beginning of that raised bed over here and then train the branches to go over that way as well sorry I was interrupted I don’t know
What I was saying I think I think it was yes the branches you can’t let them go longer than 8 ft but my beds over here are I think 12 ft long I believe 16 no they are they’re 8 ft long so that’s actually perfect I’m not
Exactly sure the reason why they don’t let them grow longer than 8 ft so that’s the first TI what what would you do in the second year so now this would be the second year of its growth so in its second year what I’m going to do is I’m
Going to allow four new canes to develop on this grape vne and I’m going to be training them as I have mentioned to go across the bed and each of these canes has to be about a foot away from each other so that they have enough air uh
Flow in between them because if you do not have enough air flow in between them the grape vine can develop disease and uh it can uh succumb to mold and these kind of fungal diseases so it’s really important to allow that air flow also when you have a grap Vine that’s kind of
Super thick and you don’t have the air flow in it the insects start attacking it uh and you are not going to be able to get to all of them if you do apply any sort of um organic insecticide so by having the grape vine sort of open and
You have a lot of air flow in there you’re able to uh Target these insects that would attack the gra fine or the grapes uh very without missing any of them basically that’s what I’m trying to say so that’s the second year and in the second year as well I forgot to mention
This one a very important thing is that if the grape vine produces any fruits you want to plug those fruits off because those are going to take energy away from the plant and the pl the grape vine is not going to be able to develop
Its roots what you want it to do right now is to grow its cane and to develop Roots that’s a very the most important thing thing that you need that grap Pine to do then in the third year what you are going to do is after it has
Developed the four canes in the second year you’re going to allow it to develop four more canes and you also want those four canes to be going in the same direction that the other four canes are going in and you want to eventually train them on the branches that those
Four original canes were on then you’re going to by the fourth year you’ll cut the original four canes and you’ll train the newer for canes that you have allowed the the grape vine to create and those are going to be your fruiting canes you can allow the grape vne to
Fruit on the third year for Best Practices it is preferable to not allow it to fruit I may allow it to fruit just because you know this is a home Garden it’s not a Vineyard I’m not trying to sell grapes over here I’m just trying to
Grow them for us so I am going to allow it to fruit a little bit I may not allow it to fruit to put on too much fruit like I’m not going to allow it to put on like 10 grape clusters maybe I’ll allow it to put maybe five or four something
Like that just so that we can have some grapes from our from our grape vine on the third year another thing that you need to know is that one if you are training your grape vine in the same way that I’m going to be training it if you
Have four lateral branches that are either going in the same direction or in opposite directions you’re not going to want the grap Vine to carry more than 40 to 50 grape clusters on it and that is because the grape vine is not going to be able to support more than that
Because it doesn’t have a lot of growth on it if it has maybe more folar growth on it then you probably would be able to allow it to carry more than this but this method of growing grape Vines you really shouldn’t allow it to grow more than that the way how my grandfather
Grew his grape vine is he created sort of a canopy and my husband really wanted me to create a canopy but I really do not like canopies for grape Vines maybe there one day will come and we might create a canopy somewhere for a grape vine but I don’t like that because what
Happens is creates a lot of shade beneath it and then the grape the juices from The Grapes start dripping down on the area where you’re sitting like if you want to create a sitting area beneath it and also the insects uh I feel like they have more of a play
Playground in that way because the grapes The Grape Wine is not exposed to the Sun as it would be if it was grown in the this method over here so speaking of this method now I’m going to show you how I’m going to be creating support for
This grape vine so let’s go ahead and go over there so these tsts right here are going to be my support method I think these are 8ot T posts and I have three of them So the plan is to have one on each end of the bed and then one in the middle
And then we are going to be taking some really strong uh wire metal wire uh probably nine gauge or something like that and we are going to be passing the wire from but one end of the toost to the other and so on and so forth these wires is where the
Canes are going to be growing on and trained on and these wires are where the canes are going to be trained on now if I were to plant this grape vine over here which it is right now then I would be putting a toost right in front of it
And I would be training that grap line to grow along this TST so now I’m looking at it actually I have it pretty far into the bed and I would like to push it forward in this direction uh a little bit closer to the edge of the bed
Over here here so that when I do train it to grow on the TST then it would be directly close to it and it won’t have to bend in order to be trained to go uh on it this grape vine as I mentioned before is going to
End up in here and I’m going to be doing the same thing so this way I can train the branches to go to grow 8 foot rather than four feet 8 ft sorry reason why you want to have a some sort of a support for your grape vine is because the grape vine
Itself is very vendy and it’s not going to grow like a tree it is a fine and so if you just leave it be and you do not train it what’s going to happen is that grap Vine is going to start sprawling all over the ground if you find
Something it’s going to climb on it they do grow tendrils and those tendrils are what people going to grab onto the support that you provided that is speaking of the ks some of the systems that I’ve seen people use are are uh wooden really large wooden posts they’re
Probably pressure treated but I don’t want to use wooden posts over here because these are raised beds and they will be taking a big amount of space in in them over here I could I suppose because they’re going to be in the corners but that means I would have to
Dig really deep into the ground in order to have those posts secure in the ground with these tsts over here it’s super easy to um dig them into the ground I have a a TST uh I don’t know what do you call it it’s a kind of like a a pipe
Thing you pound the TST with it I can’t have access to it right now because my husband has his beehives in the way so I don’t want to get there they don’t have bees in them right now but the ones that he has there but they’re there where it’s stored so I’ll
Have to get to it another day and anyways the ground is Frozen it’s not like I can do anything about it so we’ll just have to wait wait until spring comes and the ground is not frozen I can’t really dig into the ground right now so that’s not a big
Deal I can pretty much make these toost go as deep as I want as long as we don’t hit rocks in here and these toost are pretty strong they’re Hefty and I think they’re going to be able to support all this weight and also another thing that
I’ve seen used as rebars uh where the grape vine is so they would tie the grape vine the base of the grap line to a rebar and have it grow all along the rebar until the they train the canes onto the wires so that’s something you
Could do if you do not want to use the canopy method as I have mentioned the canopy method is not personally my favorite thing so this is basically what we are going to be doing when it comes to training the grap Vine I forg forgot to mention to you
What variety of grape vine I’m growing because I got super excited about all the other pruning methods and all that I kind of like to geek out on all that stuff I have the niagar uh grape vine over here and supposedly this is going to be a really good table grape vine I
Think it’s also good for jams jellies and wine I’m not sure I’m also going to be adding the conquer and I want to add two Concords and one more grap Vine so all this time I was talking and apparently I wasn’t recording I don’t know why what happened but right now I’m
Going to be taking you over here into the woods just to share with you my plans for this area so let’s go Ahead whoa I almost tripped okay so right here behind me I have a really big old Apple tree that wasn’t fruiting at all then when my father visit us visited us he took down the branches by a lot and that tree kind of shot a whole bunch of branches
Everywhere and so last year I pruned off a lot of them this year I haven’t touched it yet I do need to prune it and I don’t think it’s going to produce any fruits yet I don’t know I’m honestly if this thing doesn’t produce any fruit this year we need to cut it
Down because it’s just taking space and we it’s not benefiting Us in any way we can use the wood maybe for grilling that’d be really cool to have kind of smoked wood flavored food uh apple wood I suppose and the idea is we want to
Kind of take in this area over here so we have a pretty big space all the way to the back over there there all this Woods right here and we would like to add some more trees in here I would like to have a cast or what do you call it a
Uh chestnut tree over here in this area so now I want to tell you what’s going to happen in the section in front of me this I don’t know why it just keeps stop recording all the time um I don’t know if most of what I said was recorded or
Not but let me flip the camera and show you what we’re going to be doing or what I’m planning on doing in the front over here I don’t know what got recorded and what not this is really frustrating so I’m not sure if this is
The same type of pear tree as the one that’s neighboring it over there but what I want to do is I want to move this pear tree this spring and plant it somewhere else in our garden because I feel like it’s not receiving enough light because we have these trees right
Here behind us and shrubs and it’s really tall let me try to see if I can show you look at this whoop all these trees blocking the light for it off of it so in the summer that is right now it’s receiving enough sunlight because
There is no there are no leaves on them so I’d like to move this out of here and then what I would like to do also is I would like to add a bed that’s going to go all along that way over there and then meet up with the apple tree right
Here so it’s going to go this way and then this way and the idea is I want to create kind of like a secluded sitting area in here and I want to cover this whole area with Mulch and as if you have seen my previous videos about Fring
These trees over here I’m trying to esali them they are mature trees but I think we can do it if we just take it one branch at a time uh over a period of several years and I’d like to create a wall that way and this way with the
Trees and I think that would look beautiful and again it would create kind of a seating area in here we can put a little maybe a little table with the chairs right there and and have some extra planting space so I don’t know if we’ll be able to accomplish this this
Year I didn’t talk about the beds with my husband yet but I did talk to him about the esing and he’s like do whatever you think is necessary because one he’s working full-time and he doesn’t really have the time to be in the garden and two he doesn’t have the
Knowledge on pruning and all that I mean he has a little bit but he doesn’t feel confident about most of it because he’s he doesn’t have the time to be in the garden so I get to play with all of this myself um and if I need help he’s there
To help me and uh so that it’s really nice it works out I get the garden all for myself if you want to see how we pruned these trees over here this year to uh start the esping process you can click on this video over here