SamSpade wrote:
> PENMART01 wrote:
>>> "White Monkey" writes:
>>>
>>> I used to think that one needed a specific type of grape leaves to
>>> make rolled and filled grape leaves, but my Palestinian
>>> step-grandmother used to just use leaves off my grandmother's
>>> Concord vines. Now I live in a house with a grape vine that had
>>> been trimmed all the way to a stump for winter by the previous
>>> tenants but is now very nice, so here are tons of leaves which I
>>> know have never been sprayed with chemicals, etc. Can I use them in
>>> making rolled and stuffed grape leaves of various sorts? If so, are
>>> there guidelines for which ones, as in how old, etc., I should use?
>>
>> Wait until the grapes attain pea size, then prune away all vine
>> growth from about 12 inches past the grape clusters.... choose your
>> leaves from the pruned away vine.
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> Hey PenFart
> Did you even bother to read the OP? She was asking about grape
> *LEAVES* and your blurb is about how to grow grapes, not whit about
> growing leaves.
>
No, you just didn't READ what he wrote. He said: choose your leaves from
the pruned away vine.

The rest is just lagniappe because, you know, those grapes will grow back.

Jill