Clarkinks older fruit and vegetable growing Projects in Kansas

General Fruit Growing
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Kris, I am using a crude trellis this year. Before woven wire hoops, they require support of stakes well driven in and have used tie wire or heavy cable ties as fasteners.

One thing that will help is to use woven wire with 4 X 4 or larger spacing. Mine is graduated up to 6in spacing, it is a non-climbing goat wire, easy to handle and structurally strong to the eventual weight.

You need to be able to get your hands through it, one side of mine is on posts, the other side is leaning in to the top of 3 strand ss cable.

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#22

@krismoriah

5 feet welded or woven wire is fine since grapes are not terribly heavy. Use plenty of good strong posts. Hardy Kiwis tear a fence down fast so use something much stronger for them. Grew my grapes about 4 feet apart because my soil is clay but for most people that is between 6 -10 feet apart. Concord and seedless concord do best here.