It depends what you want to do with them. I do not recommend the Concords if you want to make wine. However the Concords are good for just about everything else including eating right off the vine. Have fun!
It depends what you want to do with them. I do not recommend the Concords if you want to make wine. However the Concords are good for just about everything else including eating right off the vine. Have fun!
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My neighbor planted an acre or two some years ago, with plans to sell the grapes to local wineries. They had to erect a REALLY tall fence to keep the deer out, and apparently there was govm't assistance money available to subsidize the fence materials and installation - maybe it's considered an Ag crop...? Seems fairly low effort if they survive the deer, birds and other pests. I don't see them tending to their crop very often.
Have had muscadine vines for several years.
Depending on variety may need to have drip irrigation for the drought years.
I agree with what has been listed already.
I would think you would have to prune each year, just like muscadines.
Fertilize, spray for insects, weed control, animal control, etc.
You may need a variety to have male pollinators.
Southern Illinois is full of vineyards and the owners I've talked to say the wild turkeys eat more of their grapes than all other wild critters combined. The woods I grew up in had some wild grapes that were never tended and were always a treat when ripe.
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Don't start one close to a farm field, or keep on opposite side of the yard from one. Grapes are very sensitive to common agricultural herbicides. Just a little drift or fumes can ding them up.
Got 2 grape vines in my yard - 1 with red grapes, the other with green - we only water daily and feed weekly - so worth the results (no, no idea what strain of grapes either of them are)
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Concords grow wild at my parents house.
The smell of grapes in the summer is just awesome.
They disappeared for a few years but there back in full force now.
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Is there any kind of trade-off in growing the seedless varieties?
Seems like anything that's marketed as "seedless" always comes with a catch.
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