In my last postI looked at grow pipeline on item-by-item stake . Today we continue look at alternate method acting of growing grapes with a special focus on the “ marital vine . ”
First , however , Hilary shares some photos from the Eden Project in Cornwall :
Something that strikes me repeatedly as I practise gardening is how very many ways there are to turn food and train flora .
As presently as you think you ’ve found “ the right method , ” you find another one that seems better . At my last belongings I built a modest vinery with power poles and telegram . It ’s the “ right ” individual - row arrangement often used in Florida Vitis rotundifolia output .
But it ’s by no means the only method acting . It may not even be the skillful method acting , even though it ’s common and easy to fabricate .
There are many methods that can be used . Like growing grape vines on trees !
Growing Grape Vines on Trees with the “Married Vine” Method
Andrew Wallace netmail me a fascinating article yesterday cover the “ married vine ” method acting of maturate grape , as practice in ancient Italy :
“ The Etruscans were the first winegrowers in Italy , begin from the wild varieties .
The raging grapevine is a local plant in the Mediterranean area . In the more ancient time , people began to pile up its yield in the Mrs. Henry Wood .
The barbarian vine ( Vitis vinifera grape sylvestris ) is a aboriginal mintage of the Mediterranean country and , above all , in Italy , it find its idealistic conditions . Even today , it is potential to rule wild vine in our woods ( even if you have to make attention to distinguish them from vines became wild , from old abandoned vineyards ) . The varieties we cultivate today derive from the wild vine , modified through millennia by selections and crossings carry out by man .
Returning to the Etruscans , scholars speculate that they cultivate the vine since the Bronze Age , however at least from the 12th C B.C.
Later , with the growth of civilisation , being nifty navigators and merchant , they had increasingly intense contacts with the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean ( particularly with the Greeks ) , where civilisation and viniculture technique were already more evolved . This allowed them to refine product techniques , to import new dick and new practices of working . New oriental vine varieties were also import ( whose summons of domestication began in a much more outback geological era in the Caucasus area ) . These new vines were cultivated and crossed with local mixed bag too .
Thanks to these influences , the primitive Etruscan viticulture grew and grow over the centuries , and vino production increased in quantity and quality . So , from the 6th century B.C. , began also the overseas craft ( which we will discuss by and by ) .
The Etruscans cultivated vines in the same manner they saw these plants grow savage in the Natalie Wood . The vine is a climbing bush , a species of liana . In a wood , its raw environment in our latitudes , it tends to climb up a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to reach the light as possible ( it is very heliophilous specie ) . However , it is not a parasite : the vine does not weaken the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree on which it clings .
Today the Etruscan culture system name is “ married vine ” , “ vite maritata ” in Italian . The vine is like “ married ” to the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . This definition is not Etruscan but was suffer later , as we will see . The Etruscan word was “ àitason ” .
I extremely recommendreading the entire C. W. Post , which is replete with illustration and paintings of the method of growing grapeshot vines on trees .
I have not incorporated grapevines into my food for thought timber system yet , as they are often too vigorous for young trees , and I keep move before the system gets large enough to handle them . However , our current dimension has a wide variety of trees of various sizes which we could use for viticulture experiments . In fact , there is a row of popcorn tree along the driveway . Would n’t it be interesting if they worked ? Their allelopathic disposition might be risky for grapeshot , but who bed ?
I also have a young pecan tree , some black cherries , some sweet gums and even a pitch-black walnut that might turn as supports for grape vine .
In the past I have experimented withpollarding a sweetgum Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree as a support for mounting yams . Why not grapeshot ?
