Grow Grapes of Your Own

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PHOTO: GORDON TILLOTSON
PANEL 1: From January to March, the grape cuttings are stored head down in a hole. PANEL 2: Bundles of wintered-over cuttings—still tied and tagged—are ready for spring planting. PANEL 3: Future fruit producers are set out in a nursery row in early April. PANEL 4: A 2 1/2-year-old grapevine in fine health.

Our Oklahoma farmstead has a warm, gentle slope–just
to the south side of the house–where my wife Diane
and I had, from the day we moved in, dreamed of building a
grape arbor. Unfortunately, although we knew we
wanted a “backyard vineyard”, we didn’t have the

  • Published on Jan 1, 1980
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