Ways to Train Grapes

Have you ever seen grape plant starts for sale at your local grocery store? Here they are displayed for sale just outside the entry doors around the beginning of Spring each year. For as little as $9.99 each, they are a cheap experiment in growing grapes (or raisins). Seems easier to me than attempting to grow grapes from a seed, and faster than waiting a whole year before growth starts resembling anything grape-like. If your local stores don't offer these sweet temptations you can even find grape plants and grape seeds at Amazon.com.

I indulged and purchased 2 grape plants of different types not being sure which would like growing in my backyard or not - but after I planted them I realized I know nothing at all about how to grow grapes! A quick search led me to Cornell Fruit giving plenty of help on how to get the grapes to grow different ways. Now I just need to choose which method I want to use for training the vines. Easier than I thought with lots of pictures included so I don't actually have to understand all the fancy terms to start training the vines. Whew!