So, it will all come out to the bare soil. The entire area is infested by weeds and grasses. The blueberries were badly damaged last year and probably won't recover.
The raspberries have broken out and are spreading. I've decided to basically gut 1/2 of the planting area in the front yard. The worst areas are the back and the front yard In order to grow anything this season, I've had to clear the Square Foot Garden Boxes and plant in them while closing my eyes to the weeds in the walkways and unused parts of the garden. While I don't think that the entire property will be renewed by the fall, we are already planting for the spring and summer.Īll parts of the property are weed-filled and otherwise overgrown. The renewal of our growing areas continues. If you are interested check it out here: īelow is a picture of how the area cleared today looked in September 2011 and how it looks after the work today. It's not that I don't know what to do, only that in 2011 I didn't do it. I purchased his program in 2009 and have not been sorry. If you are interested in growing grapes, I can recommend a commercial table grape grower in South Africa who sells a well-priced training program for people interested in growing grapes. I plan to work on the vine in the canyon tomorrow and will give a short report then. The grape vines will provide good shade over the relaxation garden. The redwood slatted panels that provided shade had finally begun to rot and I took them down. It is in the process of filling in over the pergola that was built over 15 years ago.
I have trained it to travel along the pergola to the relaxation garden, which is next to the canyon. I will have to quickly build a pergola over that space. A small portion remains and I will train it along a narrow space between the shed and our back wall. The Crimson has been almost completely cut back. The Thompson still covers the deck and will provide shade for sitting and watching the garden in the summer. Today the Thompson Seedless and Crimson Seedless were cut back in front of the shed. Since the great renewal is going on, I decided to cut back the vines to allow sunlight to cover those deprived spots.
MAPLETREE GARDENS UPDATE
Check my blog post on "May 9th - Update 4" to see pictures of the vines. The squirrels only took the best before we could pick them but we didn't try very hard. The grapes were sweet, even if small, but most rotted on the vines. The grapes vines became overgrown and the clusters had small grapes. The clusters should have been thinned by at least two-thirds, but 2011 was the year that wasn't. Last year (2011) the grapes flowered and produced a massive number of grape clusters. If you haven't already seen it, be sure to check it out. There's a diagram of the lot on the website that shows the area in the back of the house. This is such a small lot that each square foot is precious.
MAPLETREE GARDENS FULL
What I discovered, as time passed, was that the vines were filling in so densely that, even with constant pruning, their shade was blocking large areas of the garden that required full sun. If you check back into the website you can find pictures of the vines as they grew in and filled the areas as planned. Train them up on pergolas where they would provide shade during the growing season. The original plan was to plant 3 seedless table grape varieties Thompson, Crimson and Black Monuca.
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