>"White Monkey" writes:
>
>"sf" wrote"White Monkey"
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > In icky boring sandy soil and a Dutch climate? AWESOME! I'll pass this
>along
>> > to my husband, who's doing the majority of the gardening right now in
>my
>> > late pregnancy. It's only one vine, though, by the way--two clusters of
>> > grapes. We have NO idea what kind yet, or even what color.
>
>
>> Grapes like full sun, warm days and cool nights. Sounds
>> like you'll need to experiment with watering since you have
>> that sandy soil.
>> Practice safe eating - always use condiments
>
>
>Thanks. That's why I don't hold out a lot of hope except about it being a
>nice foliage plant. We've had a few days now of full sun, but that is rare
>here. Usually it's overcast for at least most of the day. Warm we have at
>the moment, but also warm nights. By a month from now, though, it'll start
>getting chilly, and by mid-September, day and night will be pretty cool and
>it will be raining all the time. This just isn't a grape country. A friend
>says her parents were able, with a lot of work, to grow a lot of purple
>grapes of some sort one year but that they tasted like water. We'll just see
>what we get, but I expect I'll be making a lot more rolled grape leaves than
>I will jams.
>Thanks,
>Katrina

Grapes flourish over a wide range of climates and soil conditions... your
negativity is begining to sound as though you're just too lazy and obtuse to
make the effort.

http://www.grapeseek.com/webpages/faq.html


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