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Hello - Jenlewis - I know absolutely nothing about grapevines - but I get all my info from my weekly gardening mag or my RHS Manual - happy gardening - Jane

I am also like you jenlewis,I go pruning anytime of year,if I think it needs tidying up I go for it, but it seems to work for me , my shrubs and plants are doing well,I would not call myself a gardener, bit I enjoy gardening so much.

Hi janelloyd, maybe I should start looking at getting some more gardening books. This is my 1st summer in this house and I had promised would wait and see what I've got 1st but the urge got to much. The beds have not been touched in years and are very overgrown with lots of weeds.

Hi callie1914, like you I've alway just gone for it. Having sort of given up work, thought I would try and learn the proper gardening way lol. But the urge got the better of me. :-) jen

Oh you sound like me. Once those clippers are in my hand everything gets scalped ! I do try to cut things at the right time but sometimes (often) I forget :D
Do you get any grapes on your vine ? I had an outside one when I lived in the old cottage but it never bore any fruit so when I moved I left it there.

Hi hywel, so glad to hear my not alone in being a pruner sinner :-). As for grapes, we had a couple of bunches on it last year when we moved in. Its a very old vine but was very over grown. I thought this I will look up and do it properly, well try to. I did my winter pruning and then the summer tidy, removing all but 2 leaves beyond the forming bunches. Now I've got to decide if want them for eating or wine making. Eating I've got to remove a lot of the bunches which I'm finding hard as little voice in my head keeps saying what if the rest then fail! My daughter wants them for wine making. When I met My hubby, he introduced her to the TV series "The Good life". Its one of her favourites and she now makes wines, rosehip syrup, and jams from her foraging. Moving up here she now has her 1st garden and trying her hand at vegetables. Think in the end will leave them all and just cross my fingers. :-)

Lol your in good company here. I was out with my secateurs yesterday as well. I'm sure they will all be fine

I had grapes on my vine last year - till the dog got them lol. Hope they do well for you.

Hi Sam, bless Sunny. I'm sure he was just trying to help :-). In my last garden I only had Ben and he took a dislike to one of my rose bushes that I had just planted. He kept digging it up and then I kept replanting it. Happened about 4 times till in the end he got bored with that game and tore it to pieces! Lol

I agree. I hate thinning things out. I always think it's a waste.

Lol yes he did try to 'help' quite a lot last year, live-heading my flowers (mostly tulips and pansies), digging a couple of holes for me and then harvesting the grapes lol.

Lol Ben was clearly trying to tell you that Rose was in the wrong place.

I had some bare root roses a few months after we had Sunny. He was out in the garden with me while I was planting them. I'd dug the first hole, picked the plant up to check the depth. Put it back down next to me while I dug a bit deeper. Then when I went to pick the plant up again it was gone. The cheeky monkey had run off down the garden with it lol.

Lol. What would we do without our little/big garden helpers

Lol I don't know. Wouldn't life be boring.