Backyard Aquaponics
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My dad pruned our grapevine about a month ago. He left it totally leafless and bare. Now it's all leafy again and we've got flowers going. You can treat it like you do with tomato plants. Remove dead bits and useless "extra limbs" in the branches - even if you're just tidying up your plant.

Point I'm saying is, if you want flowers you gotta prune before summer. Next time we'll prune will be about February. we wont get any flowers or some such but it will lead the grapevine into a slow decline into dormancy.

Actually there's a question, are you going to keep the grapevine going in the AP system even though it's going dormant when summer is over?

Prune grapevine after it has lost all leaves. This is when the sap has gone back down. Do not prune when sap is in the stems for it will bleed. When the sap rises all new leaf buds will form. Pruning is done back to two spurs when dormant.
Just a basic when to and when not to, hope that helps.

thanks Faye and Sleepe

I know how to prune but how do you stop possoms eating the b';[y leaves

we have a large black dog for the possums

HELLO POSSUMS...........!

he seems terribly fond of them

He can have the ones around here they are making my garage look messy

you have possums, we have cows which have a particluar taste for silverbeet and lettuce and watercress

Found out yesterday that my pea and bean eating dog also eats green tomatoes. Bugger will eat anything.
Threw him a chilli. Think I lost a bit of the trust.

Hey Dufflight
my two eat the strawberries from the plant before i can pick them
and they know how to tell when they are ripe too only the ripe ones go missing
and some of the tomatoes go missing too ( eats them whole )

so this seems to be a common problem with mans best friend

we don't get any tomatoes, the ducks eat them all

now that is a problem i dont have
but if i had ducks then i wouldnt have the snail problem that i do

i guess it is catch 22 ( and im not sure how long the dogs would stay away from the ducks either )

I think there is a nursery rhyme about something similar... what comes after the dog?

The shotgun. Kinder was fun.