gray_b
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Do I need rabbit protection on me grape vines ??I am about to plant a few grape vines, but have only just thought.
Do I need rabbit spirals as I do on me apples.
Are grapes particularly attacked by rabbits, or should I just add spirals as an insurance policy.
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crusher
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Protect them !!!
Rabbits love vines. They will eat the leaves/stems if they can reach and will strip the bark and kill the vine if they can't get to the green stuff.
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Mistress Rose
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If you have trouble with rabbits attacking apples, I would say protect them too. Better safe than sorry.
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tahir
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Definitely protect mi e are 4 yrs old now and they're gnarled and woody so I think they'll be ok. If we were to replant I'd go for a system where the grapes are relatively high; foxes and badgers both eat low growing bunches
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Pilsbury
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In the garden next to work they have traimed them up over a frame made of scaffold poles, must be about 7 ft high as tey have a table and chairs in the shade and the bunches of grapes hang down to be easily harvested, i love the look of it.
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gray_b
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I've gone for the just incase option and put spirals on them.
I know there are hares about, but not seen rabbits for over a year. The worrying bit is hares stand taller, but there is normally only one of them about, unlike rabbits.
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Mistress Rose
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The spirals will stop hares from knowing the stem. If you find that the tops are being attacked, you might do better to protect with a ring of rabbit net staked in at least 2 places. That should let the vine get tall enough to be out of the reach of hares too.
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