I have a nice sturdy grape arbor made of metal pipe and stock panels. In years past I grew Concord there and they thrived. I planned to make juice. Found out there's a lot more work to it than I'm willing to do to get juice. So I dug them out.

Last year I planted two red seedless and two Thompson's seedless. One died before the end of summer. The remaining three have sat there and looked dead, too. So I bought five Thompson's seedless plants last weekend. (Atwood's didn't have the red this year, for some reason) While cutting off the branches to make pulling the dead plants out, I noticed the branches were green inside. On all three. OK, I admit I should've done that first, but that ship has sailed.

I did get one plant planted where the dead one was, and another in a spot dead center where there previously had been no grape plant. Leaving 3 soaking in the water with tea, Epson salt and a little dish detergent, as per Jerry Baker.

I have two options.

1. I can pot the three new plants in containers and sell them at my garage sale I'm having this weekend and get my $$ back. (not really a good time for a sale but they're having a City-wide garage sale here in Dewey and it's a good opportunity to get a lot of traffic).

2. I could plant them under the grape arbor in case the three that have been slow to bud out don't make it. If they all survive, I will have 8 grapevines under my 20'x4' arbor. Would that be too much? I don't see that having too many grapes would be a problem since they're seedless and I'll probably have to fight the birds for them anyway.

Whatever I do, I need to do it today. If I wait longer I think the soaking will be too much.

Here's what the arbor looked like when the Concords were in full swing.

Help, anyone?? --Ilene