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Grape harvesting
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I live in Reading and have white seeded grape vines. When is the right time to harvest please? Shall I leave them when the colour changes yellow? -- Ch. Rajinder Nijjhar, M.Sc. Remember that to your Three moral "Gurus" mother, father and Pandit, you render money, To your spiritual "Satguru" Nanak Dev Ji/Christ Jesus, you render your MUNN or "mind" AND, To your "Sachae Paatshah" Gobind Singh Ji, you render your TANN or "physical body" as sacrifice. SACH is bitter but it leads you to heaven whilst SATT is extremely bitter but it leads you to ANAND/Salvation. Falsehoods or KOORRS are extremely sweet, MAKHAEON MITHHA, but they lead you to Hell. Unless you are a Hindu, you cannot be a Sikh, Khalsa or Nirmallae Sant For articles on sister Christian and Sikh communities, visit: - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rajinde...ar/sikhism.htm http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rajinde...ar/starbet.jpg |
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Rajinder Nijjhar wrote:
I live in Reading and have white seeded grape vines. When is the right time to harvest please? Shall I leave them when the colour changes yellow? You could try tasting one? That's pretty much how we did it. They looked kind of done a week or two back, but they were still very very sour. Left them for the extra 10-12 days and they were lovely. |
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Martin wrote:
You could try tasting one? That's pretty much how we did it. They looked kind of done a week or two back, but they were still very very sour. Left them for the extra 10-12 days and they were lovely. If we leave them too long the birds eat them. Odd, I don't think we've had any bird damage on the grapes. The buggers nicked nearly all the cherries, and the wasps got a lot of the grapes that went over, but I haven't seen any birds near the grapes. |
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 Rajinder Nijjhar wrote:
I live in Reading and have white seeded grape vines. When is the right time to harvest please? Shall I leave them when the colour changes yellow? Hello Rajinder, Glad that the cuttings I gave you are now producing. My grapes are not yet ripe apart from those I am growing against the house. I shall probably need to pick them by the last week in September to take them over to France to process into wine with my grapes over there. Were your vines affected by the late frosts? If so they will have been knocked back a couple of weeks. Anyway, the best way is to taste one. Every day that you can leave them on the vine will see an improvement. David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK http://rance.org.uk |
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says... Martin wrote: You could try tasting one? That's pretty much how we did it. They looked kind of done a week or two back, but they were still very very sour. Left them for the extra 10-12 days and they were lovely. If we leave them too long the birds eat them. Odd, I don't think we've had any bird damage on the grapes. The buggers nicked nearly all the cherries, and the wasps got a lot of the grapes that went over, but I haven't seen any birds near the grapes. Black birds fly into the tunnel to steal ours which are shouded in fleece to keep them off at present. There is a slight colour change when ripe but the taste test is more fun! -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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(2) even major wine-grape growers will pick and test samples of grapes in order to decide when to harvest. Whilst the professionals will have a battery of chemical tests, for the amateur a simple test is to taste some. |
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David Rance wrote:
My grapes are not yet ripe apart from those I am growing against the house. I shall probably need to pick them by the last week in September to take them over to France to process into wine with my grapes over there. Ours against the house are ripe, and those hiding behind the hop on the fence are ripe, but the ones at the back of the summerhouse don't look like they're going to make it. :-( |
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"Rajinder Nijjhar" wrote in message ... Hi, I live in Reading and have white seeded grape vines. When is the right time to harvest please? Shall I leave them when the colour changes yellow? The right time is before the starlings decend and take the lot. Usually about a day before you were going to pick them. S |
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote in message T... In article , says... Martin wrote: You could try tasting one? That's pretty much how we did it. They looked kind of done a week or two back, but they were still very very sour. Left them for the extra 10-12 days and they were lovely. If we leave them too long the birds eat them. Odd, I don't think we've had any bird damage on the grapes. The buggers nicked nearly all the cherries, and the wasps got a lot of the grapes that went over, but I haven't seen any birds near the grapes. Black birds fly into the tunnel to steal ours which are shouded in fleece to keep them off at present. I had a yearly battle with the blackbirds - and even blue tits when it comes to cherries -, and, last year went to great lengths to fit a net over the cherry tree, fleece over the redcurrants (works!) and net over the strawberries. The nets were useless, they just attract the birds to keep divebombing until they either get in or knock the contents to the ground where they can pick them up. Proof of the pudding: this year I am ill, the strawberries and cherries went unprotected. Strawberries just dried up with nothing eating them at all; cherries fell to the ground fully ripe. Nobody ate them, not even the birds. Birds aren't stupid: you are just showing them what is good to eat by trying to protect it. Sad thing is, many seem not even to know what wild food is any more and the cherries that grow in the street are rarely touched by either bird or child. S There is a slight colour change when ripe but the taste test is more fun! -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea |
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Spamlet wrote:
I had a yearly battle with the blackbirds - and even blue tits when it comes to cherries -, and, last year went to great lengths to fit a net over the cherry tree, fleece over the redcurrants (works!) and net over the strawberries. The nets were useless, they just attract the birds to keep divebombing until they either get in or knock the contents to the ground where they can pick them up. Proof of the pudding: this year I am ill, the strawberries and cherries went unprotected. Strawberries just dried up with nothing eating them at all; cherries fell to the ground fully ripe. Nobody ate them, not even the birds. How strange. This year we did net the cherries for the first time,a nd for the first time ever, we got a crop of about a dozen /really/ nice cherries. We will net them earlier next year. Our strawberries are always netted, even though we get enough that they probably couldn't eat a noticable amount. And our redcurrants did really well despite not being netted - the leaves made a very good protective canopy over all of the currants and gooseberries this year. Birds aren't stupid: you are just showing them what is good to eat by trying to protect it. Sad thing is, many seem not even to know what wild food is any more and the cherries that grow in the street are rarely touched by either bird or child. I've found the slugs are good for findign the best strawberries! |
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wrote in message ... Spamlet wrote: I had a yearly battle with the blackbirds - and even blue tits when it comes to cherries -, and, last year went to great lengths to fit a net over the cherry tree, fleece over the redcurrants (works!) and net over the strawberries. The nets were useless, they just attract the birds to keep divebombing until they either get in or knock the contents to the ground where they can pick them up. Proof of the pudding: this year I am ill, the strawberries and cherries went unprotected. Strawberries just dried up with nothing eating them at all; cherries fell to the ground fully ripe. Nobody ate them, not even the birds. How strange. This year we did net the cherries for the first time,a nd for the first time ever, we got a crop of about a dozen /really/ nice cherries. We will net them earlier next year. Our strawberries are always netted, even though we get enough that they probably couldn't eat a noticable amount. And our redcurrants did really well despite not being netted - the leaves made a very good protective canopy over all of the currants and gooseberries this year. Birds aren't stupid: you are just showing them what is good to eat by trying to protect it. Sad thing is, many seem not even to know what wild food is any more and the cherries that grow in the street are rarely touched by either bird or child. I've found the slugs are good for findign the best strawberries! It tends to be little woodlice that hollow them out he they are impossible, but the season was so dry this year that even they did not manage to get in before the fruit dried on the plant. On the other hand, for tha last few years we have had masses of wild strawberries, and the only ones that got eaten were some on the patio which I netted; pounds and pounds of them in the flower beds were ignored. S |
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But unless I protect them like Fort Knox, the birds take every blueberry. Those are so delicious to them. And this year we tried to leave the gooseberries on as long as possible to get them ripe enough to eat raw, but magpies took most of them. |
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Grape harvesting
Hi,
Did get a good crop but they were not that sweet. May be good for wine making. Rajinder "Rajinder Nijjhar" wrote in message ... Hi, I live in Reading and have white seeded grape vines. When is the right time to harvest please? Shall I leave them when the colour changes yellow? -- Ch. Rajinder Nijjhar, M.Sc. Remember that to your Three moral "Gurus" mother, father and Pandit, you render money, To your spiritual "Satguru" Nanak Dev Ji/Christ Jesus, you render your MUNN or "mind" AND, To your "Sachae Paatshah" Gobind Singh Ji, you render your TANN or "physical body" as sacrifice. SACH is bitter but it leads you to heaven whilst SATT is extremely bitter but it leads you to ANAND/Salvation. Falsehoods or KOORRS are extremely sweet, MAKHAEON MITHHA, but they lead you to Hell. Unless you are a Hindu, you cannot be a Sikh, Khalsa or Nirmallae Sant For articles on sister Christian and Sikh communities, visit: - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rajinde...ar/sikhism.htm http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rajinde...ar/starbet.jpg |
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Grape harvesting
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 Rajinder Nijjhar wrote:
Did get a good crop but they were not that sweet. We haven't had enough sun. May be good for wine making. You'll need to add sugar. My experience this year is that you'll need to add about 2 oz. sugar per gallon. David -- David Rance writing from Caversham, Reading, UK http://rance.org.uk |
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