First Spring after planting

Spring came and things were looking good.. Maybe too good. Early warm weather got the vines growing early and showed me that all had survived the winter season!! WOOHOO!!!

Then, after about 3 weeks of unseasonable weather we had a Hard freeze and every single vine lost all the leaves that had grown. :(  It really sucked to see all the growth vanish over night and worry that I might lose all the vines.

After a couple weeks of worrying that I might have to replant and start over the Vines started showing signs of growth. Sure enough all the vines had survived the Hard freeze and started regrowing.

by June some even had the first signs of grapes:

To give the Vines the energy they needed to grow we had to cut all the "grapes" off, otherwise they would have grabbed the nutrients and not allowed the Vines to reach their maturity. But seeing the regrowth after the early spring and issue was a promising sign.

The rest of the summer will be spent training the Vines to the top and keep trimming away any "suckers" that developed on the vine or the ground around the vine.

Here is some video I shot late in the summer