Have you also planted Vitis vinifera, or grape vine, in your garden? (growing, trees)

[Beech Tree]

Have you also planted Vitis vinifera, or grape vine, in your garden?

I am not asking this because I have any problems with these plants.

It is just because I would like to talk about those plants and exchange experiences.

Right now is a good time to start such a thread, as the vine plants are budding now.

Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine, is a species of flowering plant, native to the Mediterranean region, Central Europe, and southwestern Asia, from Morocco and Portugal north to southern Germany and east to northern Iran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitis_vinifera

[Beech Tree]

And I do not grow those vines to make wine, but to enjoy the grapes.
One of the best sorts in my opinion is: "Muscat bleu".
I can really recommend it.

[Zoisite]

If I could grow common grape vines I would do it so I could eat the edible leaves as well as to prepare goodies from the grapes. They are tasty, the leaves are too. A variety of grape species grow very well in my climate, maybe too well because here they need lots of space and have a tendency to become invasive and destructive if not kept completely in check. There are vinyards here but the plants are grown professionally and looking after them is a full time job for the growers. There are a good number of specialty wines that are produced by vintners in my province.

I don't grow any grape specimens where I am now because I don't have a location at my residence to grow it that could accomodate the great depth of the roots and length of the vines without imposing on all the other plants on the property. I do have a long metal fence with full sun exposure (the posts are set in the concrete of a sidewalk) that the vines might possibly be trained on but the plants would need to be grown in big containers and I don't know if containers would be practical. If it was possible to grow it in big containers like deep 60 gallon drums I'd be willing to try that but I don't think those drums would be deep enough for the roots of even very small common grape specimens.

I've had them growing wild on other properties but they were already there before I moved to those properties and they had never been managed. They had done quite a bit of property damage from getting so big and growing up into trees and choking them out, as well as structural damage to outbuildings, wooden fences and sheds. They can be just like Kudzu Vine, English Ivy, Himalayan Blackberry brambles and Bittersweet Nightshade vines, they can practically turn into monsters overnight in this climate.

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[Beech Tree]

Originally Posted by Zoisite

If I could grow common grape vines I would do it so I could eat the edible leaves as well as to prepare goodies from the grapes. They are tasty, the leaves are too. A variety of grape species grow very well in my climate, maybe too well because here they need lots of space and have a tendency to become invasive and destructive if not kept completely in check. There are vinyards here but the plants are grown professionally and looking after them is a full time job for the growers. There are a good number of specialty wines that are produced by vintners in my province.

I come from a family of vintners - and yes, I know that it is hard work all year round in a vinyard.
But if you just have about five plants at individual places in the garden among the flowers, then it is pure pleasure. Vitis vinifera is a fine and beautiful plant.

Not to be mixed up with the "wild wine" - Parthenocissus quinquefolia.