Our version of retirement: Living a childhood dream

Bold, it is then! It will all come out in the wash, I guess!;)
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Gary O' said:
Seems grapes do pretty well most any place except maybe the desert and high up in the mountains
Takes 'em a while to mature, but when they do (around 5 or 6 years) they take over

I'm training them to run the fence
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DO YOU MEAN IT TAKES 5 or 6 YEARS TO PRODUCE GRAPES? THATS A LONG TIME.
DO YOU MAKE WINE OUT OF IT?
 
Gary O' said:
Takes a couple years to yield any fruit
Takes considerably longer for the vines to wend their way (to cover the uglies of a chain link fence

No wine
I don't think the concords are a good wine grape

Just juice, jam, and picking to eat
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THANK YOU! THEY LOOK WORTH WAITING FOR. WHAT A FABULOUS WAY TO PRETTY UP A CHAIN LINK FENCE!
HAVE AN AWESOME DAY GARY!
 
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Gary O' said:
Seems grapes do pretty well most any place except maybe the desert and high up in the mountains
Takes 'em a while to mature, but when they do (around 5 or 6 years) they take over

I'm training them to run the fence
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I have some that I discovered growing up a tree in the back. The squirrels build their nest around them and don't share. 😒
Do to lack of sun, they don't get many.
 
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Aunt Bea said:
Talk to the cook about making a Concord grape pie.
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I think she's gonna have enough green tomatoes for pies, but I'll sure show her that recipe
She loves trying new recipes
Thanks @Aunt Bea

Back when we had too many grapes at our place in Oregon City, we swapped them for neighbor's apples and plums

Now that we have too many plums, we trade them and give boxes of them to folks at the churches that feed the homeless and poor

My lady sure enjoys her garden down here in town

Couldn't grow a thing up an in the mountains
Summer frost in July pretty much nixed a garden

Whatever did grow was eaten by deer, ground squirrels, rabbits and other critters

One early evening, we were marveling at the progress of some bush beans
Then watched them disappear into the ground, plant by plant, just like in the cartoons

Pesky ground squirrels were pulling thme down into their tunnels
 
Gary O' said:
Takes a couple years to yield any fruit
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Can't recall if it's been two or three years, but grapes take their sweet time

I'm training the ones furthest from the fence to wend their way up the pole
Using cotton string with the thought it'll rot off by the time the vines secure themselves to the horizontal rod

I'll bind them closer to the vertical pole once they grow another foot

But for now, I don't want to risk breaking an initial stem

I have a vision of training them throughout those pipes and on down the fence

We'll see how this goes

They're still pretty anemic and spindly

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Gary O' said:
It's good to post

.......as long as I can

It's quite the effort, anymore

I would deerly love to read more posts on other threads, but just staying with this thread pretty much does it for me
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It's always good to read your posts @Gary O' . I have always found your posts about your life really interesting as it's so different to anything I have experienced.
 

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