First Post! :)

This is the first post on my new blog concerning grape vines. I have one - one year old concord grape vine, and three new first year concord grape vines on the south side of my house. The one year old concord survived the harsh 2010 winter we had, and started this year less than a foot high. Now, by the beginning of June, it is already about six feet tall. It was pruned as a single trunk until three days ago when I decided to pick off the top shoot of the main trunk and allow two new buds to swell and produce two new canes allowing growth outwards. It's exciting to see all of the growth in just the last month, and I'm excited to see how long the new canes and their new growths will become over summer.

The other three vines are very small and I am not expecting them to grow much taller than a foot this summer. Next spring, they may grow as quickly as the one year old concord, at least I'm hoping. We have had an unusually warm spring that started very early. This allowed me to put the vines out early in the year. Unfortunately, two of the three I put out died because of a very late frost, so I put two more out. They are showing slow growth, as their new root systems are growing quickly. The one vine that survived the frost looks very hardy and has lots of bright green leaves. This vine looks even more promising than the one I planted last year at about this same time. :)