After some serious pruning last fall, this year's Concord Grape crop seemed full of promise. All summer, we watched them grow and flourish. It really seemed as if we would have a bumper crop. Way more grapes than I could possibly turn into jam in the autumn. But the summer was short, and not that warm.
And then one day it was Autumn. Rain began. It got cooler. Usually the grapes ripen by the end of September or beginning of October. This year a few of them turned purple, but the rest remained green. Now the leaves are dying and the grapes have a white powdering of mold. Darn it! My wonder-crop has failed and we won't have grape jam this year!
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