Hi'ya from Alabama

Howdy all,

I just had to say how neat this website is! Just happened on it doing a google search:) I just moved back home to Alabama and it got me. You know what I mean...the gardening bug. Hook, line and sinker lol.

p.s. anyone know anything about grapes please check out my post in fruits and nuts. It's my next big project. Id really appreciate any help you can give.

Thanks
Gary Spivey

Welcome to Dave's Gary....a big wave from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan!

gary - welcome to daves garden. its a great place.

Welcome from Alabama, you will love it here.

nina

Welcome from Iowa!! Hope you enjoy your stay in the garden.

Another hearty welcome from an Iowa gardener.

Welcome back to Bama! and to DG's both are really kool places...

Welcome in, haven't been here long myself but it's a nice place to spend non gardening time. Only thing I can tell you about grapes is they grow some dynamite wine grapes in this hot little valley. See ya round the forums. Blooms

Oh, get this, Blooms -- muscadines/scuppernongs grow WILD there, but is that what he wants info about ~NO!~ of course not! It's like me and ice plant, I guess: too easy?!!

Now, I've been wanting to say this since I got Gary to post his location (over in Fruits&Nuts)...

"I don't know Jack!!!"

about grapes in Alabama... but my unidentified golden grapes are getting bigger every day! I jumped the gun and ate one, and it was SOUR, pickle-your-face sour. Probably got a month to go, at least if it returns to NORMAL temperatures... if it goes back to 100F+, bets are off. (Or I should say, at 100F the bet would be if I could keep enough water on the plant to harvest ANY grapes! Been watering every other day and that is SO dicey in this adobe soil...)

~spin!~

One more welcome from IA. Enjoy the 'garden!'

Hey Gary ! Welcome to da club =)
Shirley in Smalltownrednecktractorville ,WI

Welcome to DG from anuther Alabamian :)
God Bless,
~Tammy~

Yes Spin, muscadines/scuppernongs grow WILD here, need some vines? Probley not right time to send though

Thanks but:
(1) no room
(2) must be some reason they AREN'T offered here (lack of humidity?)

I have a funny story/memory about scuppernongs. Back in '80, I was visiting friends who had relocated to Frosty NC. We attended an organizational meeting for a new Neighborhood Watch group that was also a potluck and quilting-bee. There was this wonderful fruit on the table: round, smooth, about as big as a plum but with no pit.
..."What *is* this???" I exclaimed.
...This old codger looked at me funny-like (no doubt thinking 'Damn Yankee') and replied, "It's a grape." Like, what planet did YOU fall off?

Well come 1985 -- I'm in Riverside CA attending the rehearsal-party dinner the night before my best friend got married and son-of-a-gun but there is the same fruit on the table! I literally had not seen one over those five years, but the memory came back strong.
..."What *is* this???" says the best-man!
...I fix him with the levellest stare I can muster and raise one eyebrow: "It's a *grape*." And what do you, live in a cave?
~spin!~