This is my little series on the big move back to Australia. Perhaps I will look back in the future and laugh... or cry!
Part 1: Finding a Moving Company
Past 2: A Slight Travel Panic
Part 3: Comparing Crypto Tax Accounting platforms (Cointracking vs Rotki)
Part 4: A Week in Involuntary Stasis

Towards the end of summer, we managed to get several harvests out of our little grapevine. We had planted this vine when we first moved into the house, and it has grown quite significantly in the time that we have been living here. Each year, we've managed to get some grapes out of it... but the last two years have been quite bountiful! In fact, the previous years, we have been away for a good chunk of summer, and all the grapes were hanging heavy on the vines for quite a long time... plus, there were was such a huge amount of pruning that needed to be done... in fact, the vines were growing so fast that it was invading the neighbours space and growing right up onto the roof of the shed as well.

Unfortuantely, that led to lots of wasps hanging around the vine and harvesting the grapes for us... which made it a bit of a precarious thing to prune... but it had to be pruned as I really didn't want the wasps deciding that it was a good place to live!

This year, we have been keeping more on top of the pruning so that we wouldn't have the same problem. It does mean that we have had to prune the vine several times over the summer... wow, they grow fast! However, as a nice side benefit, we have also had some nice harvests of fruit as well!

When we were choosing which type of grape to plant, I was really in favour of a dark or blue variety of grape. These tend to be the ones that I like the best... I'm really not so fond of the white grapes, and red ones are okay... but the dark ones are just so juicy and sweet! So, I was hoping that we could recreate the same thing in our own garden. The first few harvests (in previous years) were a bit disappointing... but then we started to learn about what sort of food to put into the soil to make it a bit sweeter... and to learn roughly when we should try and harvest the fruit as well.

This year, we managed to get about three large bowls of fruit out of the vine.... and these have bene the best that we have had so far. Nice and sweet, not crazily so and nice and firm... but it is a vast improvement on previous years! Sadly, they still have seeds... yes yes, I know, it isn't that big a deal, but I'm a sort of lazy person when it comes to grapes! I like the seedless types!

So, this will be the last year of harvests from this vine for us... we will be leaving the house to return back to Australia. There are many little sad things like this that we will be missing... but we have learnt so much from owning and maintaining our little house here that we will be starting from a stronger position of experience in our new place! Knowing about things to check for, how to do things...

The plan is that we will have a grape vine in our new place... but who knows if the garden will be suitable for it? This time around, I will check to see if there are seedless varieties available for household gardens... in dark varieties! And I will DEFINITELY NEVER plant blackberries ever again...

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