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In reply to the discussion: wild grapes- blessing or curse? [View all]

Denninmi

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2. Well, it's probably Vitis riparia
Sun Jun 3, 2012, 01:35 PM
Jun 2012

Which is the most common wild grape in the Great Lakes region. The fruit is very small and seedy, as you note. If you want to go to the bother, it does make awesome jelly, but you have to pick a lot of it because its so small and so much waste.

Honestly, five Greek ladies could probably get all of the leaves they needed if it only covered five or 10 feet of fence. You probably could live without it entirely, or at least live with a lot, lot less of it. Long run, if you WANTED something to cover the fence, why not take that out and replace with either table or wine grapes of some sort, something with more use for the space it takes up?



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