Grape Vine and Garden Update

First, the grape vine.  Finished pruning back the vine to take the shape I wanted.  I have three main vines trailing up to about five feet and have run wire across the trellis for this years growth.

Here's how I have been replanting some of the pruning to try and root some more vines.

You can see below that I've trimmed the piece of vine into two sections with two to four solid buds on each one.  Also, at the planted end, I stripped it to the core before dipping it into the 'take root.'

I was pretty liberal with dipping the root end.

And here, the finished product.  Only about 38 more to go!!!!!!

For the Garden, first the potato's are coming in really well.  Every planter potato has bloomed.

I've prepped the 5 foot by 5 foot bed that the Three Sisters is going to be planted in.  I added 3 forty pound bags of composted cow manure and mixed into the top 4 inches.  Watered it well and am letting it settle.  Plan is to plant the corn the 24 of February.

The first casualty of the year is one tomato plant.  The two year old fell and butt planted on one of the Manaluce tomato's!  No worries, I've got four more.  The cucumbers have all started to appear and I moved the bag to take advantage of the trellis by the 4 by 4 bed (top right corner of the photo below).

Lastly, here's two heads of cabbage I started from seed in the garden in October.  The heads are about the size of baseballs so these should be ready in the next four weeks.

Took the plunge

Ok, I took the plunge.  The weather has been so good and the outlook is continuing to be better so I said what the heck.  I put the okra and the tomato's into the garden today.  With the way the weather is looking I thought I would take a chance.  We'll see how this pays off.

You can see in the top left, I pruned the olive tree and have planted 3 cuttings with a root actuator so I may get three more tree's.

Seedling Update, Harvest of Onions

Seedlings are all doing well.  Trying an experiment, transplanted some tomato's and the okra into quart containers to see a difference in seedling growth from now until planting.  Since Phil is out and spring is early, thinking late February into the garden.

Pulled the onions today as I've got to prep the bed for the three sisters.

Post cleaning, 2 lbs 5.6 oz. in total.