There is nothing quite like eating fresh grapes straight off the vine. I have a few grape vines scattered around the garden including a few on the varandah outside the kithchen that have produced a some really nice fruit, but they are all one variety.

A few months ago I wipped up a wire trellis along the fence near the water tank and planted two new vines with some dark table grapes. There is a Ribier that is a mid season grape and an Autumn Black that is a late grape. Hopefully, this will give me wider variety grapes over a wider timeframe.

You can see the Autumn Black on the left and the Ribier on the right. In the middle is a transplanted pepino which is doing very well in it’s new home. The pepino has large egg shaped fruit with a yellow skin with purple streaks. the orange flesh is a bit like a rock melon.

When I lightly pruned the grapes last month to train them on the wire I took the opportunity to take some cuttings and as you see in the centre of the photo, they have struck nicely. I will plant these out into the garden in early spring a little further along the trellis to make sure we have plenty of mouth watering grapes next summer.