| For healthy, productive grape vines, care should | | | | chemistry, you do not want to plant them in an |
| be given to proper soil, watering, and grape vine | | | | overly wet environment, salty soil, or soil lacking in |
| pruning techniques. Grape vines need a lot of care | | | | adequate minerals and nutrients. As long as you |
| and attention, but in return they will give you a | | | | can find a sunny, well drained location, you can |
| bountiful harvest of juicy grapes that you can eat | | | | usually make the necessary amendments to the |
| fresh off the vine or turn into jams, jellies, juice, | | | | soil so that your vines can thrive. |
| and wine. | | | | When caring for your grape vines, you will spend |
| Grape vines care where they live. The choice of | | | | the most amount of time pruning your vines. |
| location has tremendous impact on how | | | | Pruning is necessary if you want to grow the |
| productive the vine will be. For example, you can | | | | best quality grapes. If you let the vine grow out |
| grow a grape vine in a container. It will grow and | | | | of control, it will spread its resources too thin. You |
| flourish, producing lots of decorative leaves, but it | | | | will end up with small, useless grapes. However, if |
| will never produce fruit. There simply is not | | | | you prune and train the grapevine correctly, the |
| enough room for the root system. | | | | vines will be able to channel the available nutrients |
| However, if you plant the vines in an area with | | | | into the high quality grapes. |
| loose, deep, adequately drained soil, the root | | | | For healthy grapes and productive vines, care |
| system will have room to spread out and go | | | | needs to be given to proper soil conditions, |
| deep, tapping into the nutrients it needs to | | | | adequate water, and correct pruning techniques. If |
| produce strong healthy vines with lots of plump | | | | you take care of your vines, they will take care |
| juicy fruit. | | | | of you by providing year after year of sweet, |
| While grapevines are fairly tolerant of soil | | | | delicious, grape harvests. |