Propped up grape arbor
Grape arbor blew over. Does anyone know how to replace the rotten arb
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Ruth McGrath
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The grape arbor is in the yard of our new home. During a bad wind storm it blew over. We propped it back up but the wooden arbor itself is totally rotten. Any ideas on how i can replace the arbor without killing the grape vines that are wrapped around the wood?
You need to trim your grape vines anyway so now would seem like the time. After trimming the vines back install a new arbor and train the plants to grow up that.
Without seeing picture. I would dig holes & attach treated wood to existing legs
Put a new arbor up and slowly and carefully train it on to it
I'm not familiar with grape vines so I did a little searching on YouTube. I will send you this video and see if it helps. Since the arbor has seen its better days I would start out by cutting the vines off a couple of feet from the ground, then completely remove the arbor and build a new one in the same spot for the vines to creep up in the spring. Another option would be to buy a metal arbor. I bought one two years ago at Walmart for my flowering vine. It isn't nearly as nice as the one you have, but it is pretty and doing the job. I hope this gives you a start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilo6a6uNFJg
We have a very large grape arbor that is many years old. In Maine it is necessary to dig post holes that are 4 ft deep (below the frost line) Your arbor blew over because the support was not strong enough. Anywhere it would need some posts in the ground to which the arbor is fastened. (but maybe not 4 feet deep) a nursery could tell you. Leaving the root and about a couple feet of the vine will probably help to strengthen it. Our arbor has five sections and they are filled with ready made trellis. You won't lose the grapevine, but have lost the arbor.