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this twenty-five year old concord grape plant ( rootstock? )...

that produced these vines that trailed along the ground and up into the elm and fir trees that grew next to it...

was reduced to this stump by the clowns that installed the new fence last fall even though i explicitly pointed it out as something i wanted left intact...i was somewhat irritated...actually still am although that has been mitigated to a fair extent becuse...

the "stump" has produced a new vine...the roots live on which "pleases me mightily...i have fenced it off until i can train it into the trees again, mostly to keep marigold ( the dog ) from digging around it...we will be keeping a close watch on this one...

in another surprise i discovered a second vine growing under the fir trees which has already found its way to the tree branches...doubly pleased...i surmise this took root from a fallen grape from a last season...serendipitous...

in the meantime the grapes on the south side of the house that were mislabeled as seedless but are not have bloomed and are on their way to grapehood...

mulberries are ripening on the trees ( there are three back there ) and falling to the ground...they are a bit on the tart side still...the birds will eat them anyway...so will i...

and last in this fruitful discussion, the strawberries are blooming and producing...fruit and daughters