Friday, November 18, 2011

Grape Cutting

The sun peeked out today while cooking horn soup, and so it was a good time to dive into pruning the grapes.

Usually we wait until Feb, but it was so cluttered and shabby, it needed done sooner.

As soon as the leaves are off, the vines are ready to be cut.




We pruned back to just the main vine.


Much tidier and clean looking. Never mind all the leaves in the background...







Interestingly, the vine starts out in the garden house are still green - and they've been dry for weeks while we were out in Wyoming...








The porch is much better looking, too.


All ready for winter.








Hard to believe it was like this just a few weeks ago...


Well, the grapes are green so it was a few months back.


Oh, those good ole summer days...