Legacy Grapes

Around 80 years ago a lovely woman planted a grapevine. She took good care of that little vine and it flourished. Among other children she eventually had a son. One day that son inherited the property and that grape vine. He soon married and his wife took good care of that much bigger grapevine and it continued to flourish. Among other children they eventually had a son. One day that son married me.

All five kids have used that grapevine. For the last few years the Mr. and I have taken the last harvest to make jam that we could give to people as gifts for Christmas. The Mr.'s parents plan on moving far, far away. The original plan was their youngest son (my brother in-law) would get the property and we all had no say in it. That would have been fine because I'm sure he and his wife wouldn't care if we continued to use the grapevine. However, due to medical issues the parents postponed their move and the bro-in-law has since bought a new house and says the next time he moves it will be to the cemetary. Which means the parents will probably sell their property to strangers.

Now I might be mistaken but I don't think strangers will like it if we tromple onto their property and steal their grapes. It is a standard concord grapevine and I'm sure we could find some similar grapes at any old store ... but this grapevine has been in the Mr.'s family since before his father was BORN! How many living things can you say that about? I wanted a legacy grapevine.

I spent weeks learning how to take clippings from the original vine to start new vines but they'd still really be that old vine - just younger. I wanted to try to start three vines so I'd be pretty sure at least ONE of them would survive and then BAM! I'd have my legacy! We could even call our jam "Legacy Jam" lol.

But The Mr. (God bless him) only heard I wanted three grapevines and he went out and bought me three grape vines. Now I need to find a place to put them. He doesn't listen very well but he does try. He got me red white and blue (purple) grapes. Freaking awesome. I may still try for the legacy but if all four take off I'll be hip-deep in grapes! JAM FOR EVERYONE!!

For the past four years I have also mentioned that I wanted a blueberry bush. I figured if I had one I could eat blueberries whenever I wanted and maybe save up enough for a pie. The Mr. told me he LOVES blueberries! Could've fooled me - we've never even ONCE bought blueberries! So he went out and bought three different kinds of blueberry bushes.

If you care he also bought me a rose tree, a citrus tree, a bunch more strawberries (it's annoying to take care of a strawberry patch for 9 months and only get to eat one strawberry cuz my kids are pigs lol), a new blue rose (cuz the other one wasn't blue), potato starts and garlic starts. Now all I need is carrot seeds! Then I'll never have to go to a store again lolz.

Now I know I told you all that we were thinking of moving - which we still are - so I had to POT all these plants and they are all sitting in my front yard. I look like a loser LOL. Still if we move we are taking every single plant and tree we added to this property!

Got a lot of gardening to do!