Grapes
The only upside to global warming is that this year the temperatures hit the high 80s so early that powdery mildew had no chance to take hold of the grape vines, and we have edible grapes for the first time since we planted the vines. The only downside to having edible grapes is that we have to fight the birds for them. I'd have liked to have left these on the vine for a few more days, but what you can't see in this picture is that approximately 25% of these grapes had already been bird-pecked. (I trimmed the pecked parts off so they would be more photogenic.)
These are the green seedless; we have red seedless as well, but there were fewer of them, and they ripened earlier and have all been et by now. They're both teeny compared to store grapes. When I was a kid, my dad grew this variety of green seedless, byt we also had a red seeded variety that was much larger. Mom used to boil down vats of them every year to make jelly. We had like... eight to twelve of the red seeded vines. That's a LOT of grapes. We started out with only one or two, but every year Dad would propagate a few more via cuttings. I might try that myself one of these years.
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These are the green seedless; we have red seedless as well, but there were fewer of them, and they ripened earlier and have all been et by now. They're both teeny compared to store grapes. When I was a kid, my dad grew this variety of green seedless, byt we also had a red seeded variety that was much larger. Mom used to boil down vats of them every year to make jelly. We had like... eight to twelve of the red seeded vines. That's a LOT of grapes. We started out with only one or two, but every year Dad would propagate a few more via cuttings. I might try that myself one of these years.
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