I threw some Traminette and Noiret in this year. The Noiret is very vigorous. The Traminette is finally taking off. I have Frontenac, Frontenac Gris, Le Crescent, Aromella, St. Vincent and Marquette. It's a small vineyard that I just planted this year. I really wanted to try the Geneva Double Curtain, Vertical Shoot Position and Modified Munson training systems. We usually did the Kniffen. I have 72 vines in total. Good luck with your vineyard. I picked up a Brianna too...I thought about Prairie Star, but Brianna won out!

@@dc1397 Cool. I'm "head training" or "goblet" training my vines, which eliminated all the wire and posts. I'm just using a t-post per plant.

@@51rwyatt ah, old school

Glad you like them! :D

Thank you for the kind words!

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Hi! We do not use fungicides. The main reason we do not have this issue is because we use Mypex ground cover. Using ground cover like this has many advantages - and might even be more environmentally friendly than not using it (depending on how you react to disease and weeds and bugs) You can see our video on ground cover here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/frGhhJSD1rLaZok.htmlsi=eZqncCLnRXp0IdNr

Thank you very much! And good luck with your Solaris! :)

@@thenorwegianvineyard Please tell me what latitude you have?

@@pacificus4108Hi! We are at 61.1 degrees north. The reason it is so temperate here is that we have the gulf stream coming into our fjords giving us a sort of coastal climate inland :)

​@@thenorwegianvineyard What a wonderful place, you never cease to amaze me and feel joy for your craft and the beauty of nature. Especially at such latitudes)

@@thenorwegianvineyard Do you have such a thing as the sum of active temperatures? Can you tell me what are the indicators for the growing season?

Hi! Sorry about the late reply! ;D We here in Norway benefit from the gulf stream hitting our shores making our climate milder than it otherwise would have been. I am not sure you get any such effect in Alaska. But, we do encourage anyone to start growing and at least some years you can be lucky to get a harvest :) see our video about the best grapes to grow in cold climates and good luck!

Hei! Vi lager vår egen kompost og aske som en del av prosessen på gården :)

Hi David! Thanks! :) The challenge then becomes how to handle the grass etc. that grows between the rows without damaging the cover and spreading small pieces of the ground covering material.. there is always pros and cons. Ideally we would not be using ground cover like this. But, when you run a small grow-operation like this you would not have time for much else than caring for the rows if you do not have a proper ground cover i think :/

@@thenorwegianvineyard Thanks. Yeah I have wondered about that too. Will have to try it and come up with a solution. But your concept is very promising. Perhaps the time spent initially on a more ellaborate setup to allow easy grass cutting inbetween would be offset by not having to have such strict and regular crop care. Thanks again :-)

​@@thenorwegianvineyard Been looking into the use of sheep for managing the grass between the rows and they seems to give loads of amazing benefits. In the UK, Shropshire Sheep are known for leaving trees and vines alone so it might be a possibility in combination with the weed mat. They also happen to have great wool and good meat as an added benefit.

@@davidreeves45 That seems like a really good idea if you have sheep around! As long as they do not trample the edge of the mat and damage it this would be a really smart :)

Many thanks Jojo! :)

I have started my first and one grapevine in my frontyard.,

How i wish I can buy cuttings with that of your Boskoop Glory sir

Many thanks! It rarely goes below -10c, but can get even colder in special periods. Some winters can be really mild, and on special occasions it can get as high as +10c at christmas. Most common are days around 0c through the winter.

@@thenorwegianvineyard, very special place on 61' north! Good luck!

We love the Zilga jam as well! It goes great with cheese and red wine.

Hi Recepta! Thank you :) I do not know where you can buy them in Polska unfortunately. We have bought ours from a local nursery. If you search around you might be able to find somewhere in your country where they are sold. Possibly you just need to look for nurseries and call them :)

Thank you very much for following us the whole year :D Tchaikovsky seems to have been a reasonable man as far as i have read ;)

Merry christmas Anthony!

Hi! Thank you for the kind words :D we use a very fine net that also keeps out vasps. I am not exactly sure what the name of the net is. We call it "klimanett".

Yes this autumn has been really nice! We will be making some videos on the vinifying and other content too :)

Indeed :D

Hi Irmantas! Yes, i noticed that Solaris was not mentioned in any part of the video 😅 i at least added it to the description now. Thanks for the heads up!

That sounds amazing! I have Zilga that thrives soo good and I love the taste. It would be fun to try and make wine from it too but I do not want to fail. Do you have any recipe/tip to share? Like, would it be enough to mash the grapes and mix with water equal to juice and add some sugar? Or do I need any other additives like extra tannins? Thanks :)

@@dariomonefeldt1464 I usually crush my grapes and ferment them with skins and seeds for 4 days you can get your tannins. After that I will press the juice and ferment it for another 15 days under airlock. Then I add eggwhites to wine for clarification and alos to remove some tart chemicals for 1 month. I will rack my wine several times and coldcrash it around 3 to 6C around 5 days. After that I age my wine in oak flakes for another 2 weeks and then age it under airlock for another 6 months. PS I dont add any water or sugar. All comes from nature

Most definitely. The birds have been exceptionally eager to eat our grapes this year!

Many thanks! We have actually not had much problems with flies. Wasps can be a problem though, we sometimes have to use covering to protect against them.

Glad you like them! :D

Thank you very much!