Fruit tree pruning season is at hand and it brings to mind the importance of having the right tools. Whether you’re pruning a fruit tree, a shrub or a bonsai, the right tool makes the job easy. The wrong tool can damage the plant/tree and welcome unwelcome diseases.
Corona Tools gave us a pair of Curved Grape Snips to give away to one lucky Gardenerd who grows grapes (or wants to in 2017). Is that you? We know several gardenerds out there who wrestle with grape vines each year in hopes of harvesting fresh table grapes for their family. Listen up folks, this one’s for you.
Corona grape snips make harvesting grapes easy. Stainless steal ensures long-lasting functionality.
Here are some features of this tool:
- Designed primarily for harvesting table grapes
- Heat treated stainless steel curved 2-inch blades
- To speed up harvesting production
- For better durability and performance
- Can be sterilized or disinfected to prevent cross contamination
- ABS handles for lightweight comfort
- Non-slip grips for better control
- Double-sided thumb locks for left or right hand use
- Beveled blades to improve force to cut
To make this more interesting we’re throwing in a copy of Gardening for Geeks. You can even have it signed by the author if you want.
Start your year off with knowledge and power.
Here’s how it works: post a comment below about your grape-growing fantasy or reality and we’ll choose a random winner. Post your comment by midnight, January 18, 2017. The winner will be announced in our Gardenerd Weekly Update on January 19th, 2017. If you haven’t already subscribed to our newsletter, just fill out the form in the upper right hand corner of Gardenerd.com.
Special thanks to Corona Garden and Landscape Tools for sponsoring this giveaway.
We’re new LOVE to grow things . how do you grow big garlic& squash THANK YOU SKYE&KEITH
It’s all about healthy soil. Feed the soil microbes and they will reward you with bountiful produce. Read up on the Soil Food Web and no-till gardening as a starting point. Good luck with your adventures in gardening.
And the winner (randomly chosen by a random number generator) is: Stella! Congratulations, Stella. Please contact us to redeem your prize. Thank you to everyone who posted a comment, and happy gardening!
I would love to learn more about growing grapes within a urban residential setting here in LA County. More importantly, I would like to know what the minimum amount of space is needed for the planting to be worth it. If anyone has any online links with examples of residences growing grapes, that would be much appreciated.
HI Mary,
We usually put them 5 feet apart and let them spread along a wall or fence for 8 feet in either direction. You can train them up a wall instead, though, or over a pergola, one on each corner post.
My grandmother had ancient muscadine vines growing in her large back yard in south Louisiana that fostered a love of gardening in me as a child. She taught me a lot and though I have been an avid gardener my whole life I have yet to make come to fruition my yearning for my own backyard of muscadine vines.
We are growing concord grapes (purple and white) in Westchester. Pruning is challenging for the purple concord, about 10-15 years old, which has taken over a 10′ x 6′ arbor. It is impossible now to harvest many the grapes, so the squirrels and possums get fat on them. Hope to keep the white concord more under control, by pruning more aggressively.