The grapes on the trellis on the south side of the trailer are growing so vigorously that they finally needed some serious pruning. I took the existing tangle and snipped back vines so each strand of wire supported a single vine coming toward the center from each direction.

The best part of early spring pruning is that I begin dreaming in color. Soon the winter gray will be gone and this trellis will once again be shading our south-facing windows while plumping up sweet grapes. Maybe in 2017 we'll get quite a few more fruits than last year's one delicious cluster?

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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