On Fri, 8 May 2009 Bob Minchin wrote:
someone wrote:
I have had a grapevine growing outside next to my back door for about
15 years and it has always provided enough grapes for a few bottles
of wine. Over the last couple of weeks it has put out lots of new
leaves and little bunches of grape flowers so things looked good.
The grape trails in one direction over the back of my house and in
the other direction over an adjoining fence.
A couple of days ago I noticed that all the new shoots and the grape
flowers were drooping and they look like they are dying. The soil is
well watered and all the other nearby plants (primulas, ground elder)
look fine. So far they have not recovered, and we have not had a
frost so I can't understand what could be causing this. Any ideas?

Could just be old age. We lost a vine of a similar age about 5 years
ago.

Shouldn't be old age if it is only fifteen years old. They should go on
for at least thirty to fifty years.

David

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David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK
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