Growing Grapes is one the few overlooked yet most promising and exciting outdoor hobbies one can become involved in. It is fun, challenging, and best of all rewarding in the sense that once you have a fully grown grape farm or grape garden, you will enjoy the benefits of having fresh wine grapes to eat at your convenience. Plus, since growing grapes is an outdoor hobby, it will force you to get out of the lazy chair and out into the open and truly become one with nature.

Grapes are 65-85% water, 10-33% sugar (glucose and fructose), phlobaphene, gallic acid, silicic acid, quercetine, anin, glucosides - mono delphinidin and delphinidin, fruit acids, like apple acid, salicilic acid, phosphoric acid, lemon acid, amber acid, formic acid and a little bit of oxalic acid, pectins, tannic substances, salts of potassium, magnesium, calcium, manganese, cobalt, iron and vitamins B1, B2,В6, В12, А, С, Р, РР, K, folic acid and enzymes.

Grapes will also require some pruning if you want them to do their best. You can not understand how to grow grapes until you realize the necessity behind pruning. Pruning is something that has to take place to have the best grape vines that there are. If you were to never prune your vines the roots would be overworked trying to spread nourishment to every single cane. By doing that, none of the canes are going to get enough nourishment making for an over all weak plant. When this occurs, the crop that you will have waited so long for will be a pitiful display of what your vine is capable of. But if you do the pruning that is needed, all the vines that are left to grow will be strong, creating an abundance of grapes.

Fresh, organic grape juice made with a leaf and vine tip is an excellent tonic to support liver function, relieve menopause symptoms, high cholesterol, and inflammation. This can be done by juicing a bunch of organic grapes with a juice extractor.

Grapes contain reservation primarily in their skins, seeds and the pomace, and it is also found in blueberries and peanuts, though to a lesser extent. We should all be thinking about how to include this wonder nutrient in our diets, as the list is growing all the time about what it is capable of, including preventing heart disease, lowering cholesterol and even increasing our lifespan.

Trim and prune your grape plants whenever possible, but do this gently as not to "shock" the plants that these might wither and die. Use the sharpest tools only to keep the damage minimal. Grape fruits usually emerge from a year old plants, on stems that have been established from the previous year. Year old plants have smoother barks, while older ones (those that are beyond their prime) have course and shaggy barks. Trim and prune away the older plants, but keep some of their roots intact. These may yet still yield cuttings which you can keep for future plantings. Trim some of the runners, especially those that grow beyond the area of their climbing supports.