How to Grow a Grape Vine - How You Can Grow Delicious Grapes Every Year

Getting these delicoius grapes start with building a strong foundation that allows the vine to stand steady and to absorb the materials needed from the ground.

This is important, because if you grow a grape vine at the wrong location you could have a vine that doesn't produce any fruit at all.

So follow these bullet points for setting up a good foundation.

1. Find a spot that has a lot of sun and is facing south.
2. Choose healthy and vital grape vines that looks fresh and vibrant.
3. If you can look at the roots to see if they look strong and healthy and whole.
4. If you plan on having more than one grape vine then you should space the plant about 6 - 8 feet so that they get plenty of room to grow.
5. Digg a hole that isn't too deep and that allows the roots to be stretched fully without bending.
6. Put the plant in the hole and over with soil. Attach a stake for the vine to climb on.
7. Cover the ground below the vine with leaf mulch. About 4 - 6 inches thick.

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The next step when finding out how to grow a grape vine is to train it on a trellis system. There are a bunch of different types of systems and you can choose whatever system that suits you best. You want one of these systems to simplify the pruning and harvest.

A popular choice is the Kniffen system, but overhead systems are also popular. It's important to start to train the grape vine early, but not to early. Start when it has reached about 36 inches off the ground.

You also want to keep in mind to construct a trellis system that allows each grape vine to get the most amount of sunlight.

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If you only can take one thing with you from this how to grow a grape vine tutorial, then you should choose the pruning part. This is what makes or breaks a harvest. Yes it's that important.

However it's a bit tricky if you haven't done it before.

Basically, the canes that produced this years harvest wont produce any harvest next year. You need to cut these canes off and let the vine to grow new ones.

The rule you should follow is to only prune in the late autumn when the leaves have dropped. The grape vine is in a dormant stage at this point and it won't bleed if you cut off any canes.

The other rule is to cut back the vine to the third bud each and every year. This might seem a lot but the more you prune the more high quality fruit you will receive.

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The last part is to know when it's time to harvest the grape vine. There is an important thing to say about the color of the grapes.

The grapes will turn in color before it's ripened. So don't make a harvest desicion based on the color of the grape berries. Instead you should use your own taste as a guide. Grapes are traditionally harvest in early autumn.

Another thing to keep in mind is that grape berries has the optimum ripening temperature at 20 degrees celsius or 68 degrees fahrenheit.