Bagging grapes: why? how?

Visitors to the farmden look up at the delicatessen bags hanging from the vines on my grape arbor and wonder. Yes, there is method behind my madness.

[@rebeccakleitz3177]

Wow. Thank you so much for this. My hubby and I were sooo confused about when to put the bags on! I just subscribed to your channel, I look forward to watching all your vids!!!

[@bevzvlog5897]

I just bagged 24 clusters. We used bagging fruits like Mango back in the Philippines.

[@NewYorkJennifer]

OH! I can't believe I never thought of this, especially when I bag sweet corn ears already. My chickens and turkeys always get my grapes . . .

[@banderson7164]

Awesome, thank you for the information, last year was my first year of grapes and the wasps harvested them all .

[@jamessalmons9653]

Great idea. I plan to try it. We follow a similar plan for apples, bagging several hundred apples with zip lock bags every year. We get perfect apples with no spraying. James Salmons Minnesota

[@pyongbui1294]

Where can I buy bag?

[@paugarciaquiles4283]

In Spain we use tube bags (open-ended on both sides) and we do not use staples (wouldn't that pollute your field and make it dangeous for the future???) but tie them on with filaments of esparto grass, raffia fiber or alike. Here you can see an example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZulnYmgnK-Nask

[@doxdurango]

Love Love your videos. Please show how to plant a vegetable garden. We don't have the Victory Garden anymore. I'm wondering where is your honeybee hive?

[@soilBGuRu420]

no till organic recycled living soil is the future of humanity! !! please keep up the videos spread the knowledge

[@MidwestGardener]

I really like this idea. I've always used netting, but I don't like the way it looks. I will have to give this a try, and see if I like it....thanks.

[@EveEmshwiller]

Do you know whether this would work to protect from chipmunks? My husband's grapes are all eaten by chipmunks.

[@adlumiafungosum]

Love your videos - can't believe I never stumbled on them before. Can you/Do you do something similar with peaches to keep the squirrels from eating every one?

[@18j8wineera8]

The seed in the grape bag, are they different to the one that are not bag?

[@onlyonemrxonlyonemry306]

I like sour grapes

[@18j8wineera8]

Do the seed look different to the others, the bag one? Give an example!

[@newpaltzny]

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[@jsv07018]

how do u know when the fruits are ready to eat when u bag them.

[@newpaltzny]

I start eating the unbagged ones first, so when those are ready, so are the bagged ones. I like to wait a little longer on the bagged ones to let them get very ripe.

[@jsv07018]

Lee Reich thank u very much

[@f9qo]

In Japan different sized light but durable bags for grape cluster are sold in agricultural supply places. They have a little wire twist embedded in the paper that makes applying the bag quick and easy, no cutting required. Around three dollars for a hundred bags is what I just paid. Using bags is SOP.

[@newpaltzny]

I tried the ones for apples and found them very hard to use because of the apples' short stems. I'd try the grape ones but have to wait til I use up the few hundred delicatessen bags I bought in bulk.

[@f9qo]

I didn't have any problems with the grape bags after covering somewhere around six hundred clusters. It was my first experience looking after some vines and hence using the bags, but I did break a half dozen stems or so trying to manipulate in tight spots with trellis wire and whatnot, plus my clumsy. The grapes are still very young formed, I suppose I might have waited a bit for somewhat thicker and stronger stems. The bags appear coated, I guess to keep out moisture. Grapes here mature during our rainy season, the locals are pretty adamant about covering ripening fruit. Blemishes are pretty much a no no for eatables going to market.