Grape Vines for Sale

Growing your own Grapes couldn’t be any easier. With our excellent range of Grape Vines for sale at James McIntyre & Sons, you can now have top quality Grape Vines delivered directly to your door.

Our top quality vines are known to produce high yields of delicious grapes, with a number of varieties available such as Black Hamburg, Boskoop Glory & Vroege Van Der Laan, all available to purchase from our online store.

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The varieties we produce can have various uses, such as for wine making, desserts or simply eating. These hardy vines can be grown either indoors or outdoors, and will often produce large bunches of juicy grapes, ready to be used for your intended purpose.

Knowing the soft fruit industry as we do, you can be assured that we will only provide the best quality Grape Vines, and only sold when they’re at the perfect growing stage, meaning you get the best possible grapes that you can from our plants.

While most grape growers are cultivated across Asia, Southern Europe and America, in countries such as China, Italy, France & Chile, modern grape vines can generally be grown in our milder British climate as well, and with the natural health benefits that they provide, this can only be a good thing.

If you have any queries about our Grape Vines, please feel free to contact us. If you’re looking to make the most of your plants then we recommend that you visit our Onward Care for tips on how to prepare, plant, care for and re-soil your vines.

Planting & Onward Care

Preparation

Grape vines are lovely plants to train along the inside of a greenhouse or conservatory, but they do require a lot of room. One grape vine is plenty for a small greenhouse, but for larger ones allow 1m (3¼ft) between each vine.

Planting

Greenhouse grapes grow best when the roots are planted outside the greenhouse, and the vine is trained into the greenhouse through gaps near ground level. However, where this is not possible, the vines can be planted directly into the greenhouse border, but more irrigation will be required.

Double dig the ground and then incorporate a light dressing of well–rotted manure or compost, plus John Innes base fertiliser. If the soil is waterlogged, dig a hole 75-90cm (30in-3ft) deep and create a 15cm (6in) drainage layer of brick rubble, gravel or similar in the base. Greenhouse vines should be planted at the opposite end to the door, with the stems trained along the side of the greenhouse parallel to the ridge of the roof and running towards the door.

Outdoor vines should be planted 4-5ft (1.2—1.5m) apart, 6in (15cm) away from wall/fence. November and December are a good time to plant, as the vine can be pruned back without bleeding at this time of year. Vines should be planted at the same depth that they were in the pot, teasing the roots out so they are well spread out in the planting hole. Grape vines can be grown in containers of loam-based John Innes No 3 compost. Use a pot about 30-38cm (12-15in) in diameter and depth.

Pruning

In the first spring after planting, choose one shoot to be the leader and train. Any laterals produced from the leading shoot should be stopped at 5 or 6 leaves, and any flowers or tendrils should be removed.

Onward Care

Just before growth starts in the spring, mulch the rooting area with well-rotted manure and sprinkle the with John Innes base fertiliser and dried blood. During the growing season, vines benefit from an occasional extra sprinkling of dried blood. When growth starts in the spring, feed every three weeks with a high potassium feed, such as tomato fertiliser. Once the vine is in full leaf, increase this feeding to weekly intervals. When the grapes start to ripen and colour up, stop feeding with tomato feed, as extra feeding at this time may spoil the flavour of the fruit.

Water the vine thoroughly every seven to ten days in the growing season. Vines with the roots inside the greenhouse will need more frequent watering than vines with their roots outside the greenhouse. Where the roots are outside the greenhouse, be guided by the weather and concentrate your watering in dry spells. During the summer, it is a good idea to mulch the greenhouse borders with straw to keep the atmosphere dry. This will aid pollination of the vine flowers and subsequent fruit set.

Re-soiling

Every three to four years, it may be necessary to ‘re-soil’ by digging a trench about 2m (6½ft) from the main stem, 60cm (2ft) wide and deep enough to reach any rubble put in to improve drainage. The soil removed form the trench should not be used on vines again, but may be used elsewhere in the garden. The trench should be backfilled with fresh topsoil.

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