I worked with other master gardeners at the Neely Historic Garden in Kent on Saturday morning. We pruned the grape arbor and dig some other garden clean-up tasks. I had been feeling like it was too cold to work in the garden lately, but after I was outside in the sun, I decided I needed to get busy in my yard. Since I started the day pruning grape vines, I decided to tackle my vines. I have a Concord and Catawba that are three or four years old. My husband put in some metal fence posts to use for the main supports and to support the wires, which run horizontally at about three feet. Then I pruned according to the instructions in the following:
http://extension.wsu.edu/maritimefruit/Pages/GrapePruningBasics.aspx
After I finished with the grapes, I went on to clean up a couple garden areas, hoeing the little winter weeds and trimming up some spent perennials that had nothing left to offer the birds.
Now I'm off to rake some leaves, so I can fill up the yard debris bin before tomorrow's pick up! I started this yesterday and found it took quite a bit of time to rake or hand-pull leaves out from shrubs. It sure does look neater though!
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