Catawba grapes ripening in stockings in Johannesburg, 2024 01 06 to protect them from the birds.
Today, we opened one of the stockings to see if the grapes that had turned green to blue were ripe. They were and tasted delicious!
I love growing as much food as possible organically in my home garden.
The mousebirds and grey lories also love the grapes- last year, I was not in JHB at the time of their ripening- thus, the birds got to snack on them all.
This year, Warren told me about his late mum's ( Wendy) tip of taking old stockings and covering the ripening grapes with them.
It works!
Let us know if you have any success with growing grapes in Johannesburg.