just a vine

we met the surprise concor grape vine ( i am presuming it is concord since the only other vine in the yard is a seedless one and i did not propagate a cutting from it ) earlier today...

there was a lot of vegetation growing up through the back fence around the vine so i went out to clear some of it to open up a bit more light and conserve some soil resouces for the vine...

as i cut back the vegitation the vines collapsed on the ground...mostly...

because that vegetation was what the vines had anchored tendrils to...

so i propped them up on the fence...

and pushed some tendrils though it so the would anchor there instead...we will be keeping an eye on this until they are truly anchored...we may be training vines for a while..

then i cleared out around the base of the rootstock...

and dressed it with compost...stay tuned...we will see where we get.