Grapes

Today's the day ........................ to hear it for the grapevine

I blipped the grapevine back in July, when it was already doing very well and had produced loads of bunches of (at that point) not very big grapes.  At that point, I was seriously doubting the wisdom of doing such a thing, in a summer that was far from perfect.  I wondered if it knew something that we didn't?!

Well obviously it did.  It knew that we would have a long lingering autumn with, for us, quite mild weather - so that it has been able to carry on growing and the grapes have become large and lusciously sweet.  They are still full of pips - but hey, it would be churlish to complain about that.  We're still not sure what to do with them all.  Perhaps a bit of juicing and certainly giving them away to friends.

But we're more than a little proud of our abundant harvest ...................!