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Sun, May 25, 14 at 16:42
| This spring I noticed that about a foot or so of my 3 grapevines had been almost completely girdled about 18 inches above the ground. During the late winter I had noticed a couple of raccoons hiding down there under my porch where the vines are planted. I sprayed the damaged area with black tree-tar, and initially I thought I had lost my vines. But they seem to be sprouting now. And a couple of small branches overhead that I erroneously pruned too late started to drip sap. So far, the vines seem OK. Should I have even bothered to spray them with tar? Is the bark THAT important on a grapevine, as it is with trees? Or do the nutrients get carried up through the center? The couple of small vine branches that I cut were hollow. |
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| Well, the grapevines slowly seem to be coming to life.... |
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